4,4’-Dinitro-3,3’-diazenofuroxan (DDF) is a powerful experimental
high explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. An exp ...
, with performance comparable to that of other high-density high-explosives such as
octanitrocubane
Octanitrocubane (molecular formula: C8(NO2)8) is a proposed high explosive that, like TNT, is shock-insensitive (not readily detonated by shock). The octanitrocubane molecule has the same chemical structure as cubane (C8H8) except that each of th ...
. It is synthesised by oxidative coupling of 4-amino-3-(azidocarbonyl)
furoxan followed by
Curtius rearrangement and further oxidation.
See also
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2,4,6-Tris(trinitromethyl)-1,3,5-triazine
2,4,6-Tris(trinitromethyl)-1,3,5-triazine is a chemical compound that is a derivative of triazine first prepared in 1995. It is synthesized by destructive nitration of 2,4,6-tricarboxyl-1,3,5-triazine. It is noteworthy for having more nitro grou ...
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Octanitrocubane
Octanitrocubane (molecular formula: C8(NO2)8) is a proposed high explosive that, like TNT, is shock-insensitive (not readily detonated by shock). The octanitrocubane molecule has the same chemical structure as cubane (C8H8) except that each of th ...
(ONC)
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Octaazacubane
Octaazacubane is a hypothetical explosive allotrope of nitrogen with formula N8, whose molecules have eight atoms arranged into a cube. (By comparison, nitrogen usually occurs as the diatomic molecule N2.) It can be regarded as a cubane-type clu ...
(N8)
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Hexanitrobenzene
Hexanitrobenzene, also known as HNB, is a nitrobenzenes, nitrobenzene compound in which six Nitro compound, nitro groups are bonded to all six positions of a central benzene ring. It is a high-density explosive compound (chemistry), compound with ...
(HNB)
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Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane
Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, also called HNIW and CL-20, is a polycyclic compound, polycyclic nitroamine explosive with the formula . It has a better Redox, oxidizer-to-fuel ratio than conventional HMX or RDX. It releases 20% more energy than tr ...
(HNIW)
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Heptanitrocubane
Heptanitrocubane is an experimental high explosive based on the cubic eight-carbon cubane molecule and closely related to octanitrocubane. Seven of the eight hydrogen atoms at the corners of the cubane molecule are replaced by nitro groups, giv ...
(HNC)
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Hexanitrohexaazatricyclododecanedione
HHTDD (hexanitrohexaazatricyclododecanedione) is a powerful but moisture sensitive explosive compound. It is essentially an open analogue of the cyclic nitroamine cage compounds such as CL-20. While it is highly explosive, with a velocity of deto ...
(HHTDD)
References
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Explosive chemicals
Nitro compounds
Amine oxides
Azo compounds