Methane tetranitro-, nitration

Table 2 Thermal and photochemical nitration of enol silyl ethers with tetranitro-methane in dichloromethane.

Hubig, S. M., Jung, W. and Kochi, J.K. (1994). J. Org. Chem. 59, 6233. Note the competition between ion-pair and radical-pair collapse in halogenation with iodine monochloride on p. 279 is exactly analogous to that in nitration with tetranitro-methane in eqns 82/83 (vide infra)... 

Scope. The three major military expls (TNT, RDX and HMX), the four most important military proplnt materials (Nitrocellulose, Nitroglycerin, Nitroguanidine and Dinitrotoluene) and two volatile and expl by-products (Tetranitro-methane from TNT manufg and Methyl nitrate from RDX/HMX manufg) are discussed here. 

The high, values for the lead block expansion test given by mixtures of tetranitro-methane with higher nitrated aromatic compounds are striking. On the other hand, the rates of detonation of these mixture are lower than those of mixtures containing lower nitrated compounds or benzene. 

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