Sulfoxide complexes thermal analysis

Great care must be exercised in the thermal analysis of certain sulfoxide complexes. Complexes of the type [Md SOl XX], (X = C104, N03, etc.) are known to be highly explosive on heating to elevated temperatures indeed, sulfoxide complexes with explosive properties equal to TNT and nitroglycerine have been reported in the patent literature (148,149). 

Thermal analysis has proved useful in determining the number of sulfoxide moieties which are lattice-held in a given complex. For example, the thorium and zirconyl perchlorate complexes of Me2SO undergo thermal degradation (Eqs. (2) and (3)]. 

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