Potassium nitrocyanamide

Hydrolysis of N -nitro-N-methylnitroguanidine (101) and Al-nitroso-N-methylnitrogu-anidine (102) with aqueous potassium hydroxide results in the formation of potassium nitrocyanamide. Addition of acidic silver nitrate solution to these reaction mixtures leads to... 

The explosive properties of the potassium salt of nitrocyanamide first attracted McKay s [37] attention. He separated this potassium salt as a by-product from the preparation of aliphatic diazo compounds by the hydrolysis of N-alkyl-N-nitroso-N -nitroguanidines with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide at temperatures from 0°C to room temperature ... 

Harris [39] reports that only the following nitrocyanamide salts possess greater sensitiveness and may be considered to be of practical use potassium, tin, lead, barium and silver nitrocyanamides. 

Comparing with the experiments of Grant and Tiffany [40] Harris states that silver and barium nitrocyanamides show an initiation capacity the same as that of an 80 20 mixture of mercury fulminate and potassium chlorate, but weaker than that of a mixture of lead azide and lead styphnate. This can be seen from Table 38 quoted by Harris ... 

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