Trinitrophenoxyethyl nitrate

M2,4,6-Trinitrophenoxy) ethanol Nitrate (2,4,6-Trinitrophenoxyethyl Nitrate, Glycoltrinitro-phenylether Nitrate, TNPEN). 

Another explosive which is preparable from glycol and which may perhaps be of interest for special purposes in the future is the j8-2,4,6-trinitrophenoxyethyl nitrate described by Wasmer 0 in 1938. Glycol is converted into its monosodium derivative, and this is made to react with dinitrochlorobenzene at 130° for the production of /J-dinitrophenoxyethyl alcohol which gives the explosive by nitration with mixed acid. 

Trinitrophenoxyethyl alcohol, the parent substance of trinitrophenoxyethyl nitrate, was also obtained by Wasmer [89] in another way, namely ... 

Trinitrophenoxyethyl nitrate is procured as a white powder, m.p. 104.5°, insoluble in water and readily soluble in acetone. It gelatinizes collodion nitrocotton, and is intermediate between picric acid and tetryl in its sensitivity to mechanical shock. 

Trinitrophenoxyethyl-to-nitrate is more sensitive to impact than picric acid and less so than tetryl. Its explosive strength approaches that of tetryl, since it produces an expansion in the lead block of 350-355 cm. ... 

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