Tetrakis orthocarbonate

Sodium dinitromethanide, 0384 Sodium 5-(dinitromethyl)tetrazolide, 0681 Sodium 1,1,2,2-tetranitroethanediide, 1007 Sodium 2,2,2-trinitroethanide, 0713 Tetrakis(2,2,2-trinitroethyl) orthocarbonate, 3132... 

Both tris(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)orthoformate and tetrakis(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)-orthocar-bonate form powerfully explosive solutions in nitromethane. The oxygen balance of the esters are +154 and +182%, respectively. The compounds are Tetrakis(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)orthocarbonate, 3132 Tris(2,2,2-trinitroethyl) orthoformate, 2786 See OXYGEN BALANCE, POLYNITROALKYL COMPOUNDS... 

Orthoesters of polynitroaliphatic alcohols have been synthesized in the presence of metal chloride Lewis acid catalysts. Tetrakis(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)orthocarbonate (180) and tris(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)orthoformate (181) are obtained from the reaction of 2,2,2-trinitroethanol (159) with carbon tetrachloride and chloroform, respectively, in the presence of anhydrous ferric chloride.333729 Analogous reactions with 2-fluoro-2,2-dinitroethanol have been reported.3 ... 

Tetrakis(trimethylsilylmethyl)chromium, 3727b Tetrakis(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)orthocarbonate, 3126 Tetramethoxyethylene, 2511... 

A mixture of phenylacetylene and tris(dimethylamino)methane heated 18 hrs. at 80° under dry N2 -> N,N,N, N -tetramethyl-3-phenyl-2-propynylidenediamine. Y 87%. Also with tetrakis(dimethylamino)methane, an orthocarbonic acid amide, s. H. Weingarten, Tetrahedron 24, 2767 (1968). 

Tetrakis(phenylmethoxy)methane. Tetrabenzyl orthocarbonate. Benzyl orthocarbonate C29H28O4 M 440.538 Cryst. Mp 68-70°. 

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