Pyrazolo pyrazole, calculated

Heat of formation and density calculations correlate so well with performance parameter like detonation velocity that chemists have a good idea of the performance of an energetic material before its synthesis and testing. The pyrazolo[4,3-c]pyrazoles DNPP (9) and LLM-119 (10) were predicted to exhibit performances equal to 85 % and 104 % relative to that of HMX. 

AMI semiempirical calculations have shown that, as far as tautomerism is concerned, there is a structural relationship between jS-dicarbonyl compounds and NH-pyrazoles, and in a wide variety of NH-pyrazoles studied " the most stable tautomer was found to be that having the largest single-bond character between the C(3)—C(4) bond. The problem of proton transfer in NH-pyrazole crystals has been subjected to a detailed theoretical study, while a study of the tautomerism of 2-aryl and 2-heteroaryl derivatives of benzimidazole has indicated that tautomerism takes place by the intermolecular relay of protons between stacked molecules. The first report of the stable co-existence of two different histidine tautomers in one peptide crystal structure has appeared. Ab initio calculations have been used to study the tautomerism of both histamine and pyrazolo[3,4-i/]pyridazine in the gas phase and in aqueous solution, and a theoretical study of the NH tautomerism in free-base porphyrin has been undertaken. ... 

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