This unique book investigates the synthesis, properties and processing of energetic materials and propellant compositions. It provides the thermal decomposition of energetic compounds, such as aliphatic and aromatic nitrocompounds, nitramines, nitroethers, organic azides and difluoroamines, polynitrous heterocycles, and onium salts of different acids, the most important components of modern propellants. It presents the kinetics and mechanisms of chemical reactions for both real and model compounds and examines the classic problem of the dependence of explosive activity on molecular structure.

New methods for a formal kinetic description of decay of condensed substances, the determination of the energy of bond rupture in polyfunctional compounds, and the theory of solid-phase reactions are also given. Applications to problems of predicting the stability, compatibility, and the stabilization of explosives and propellant components are included.

Thermal Decomposition and Combustion of Explosives and Propellants will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professionals in industry interested in chemical kinetics and the combustion of energetic materials.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Kinetic Problems of Decomposition of Explosives and Propellants
3. General Regularities of Thermal Decomposition of High-Energy Compounds
4. Aliphatic Nitrocompounds
5. Aromatic Nitrocompounds
6. Secondary Nitroamines
7. Organic Azides
8. Organic Difluoroamino Compounds
9. Heterocyclic Compounds
10. Nitroesters
11. Compounds with Mixed Functions
12. General Regularities of Thermal Decomposition of Onium Salts, Nitric and Perchloric Acids, Dinitramide
13. Ammonium Nitrate
14. Ammonium Perchlorate
15. Ammonium Dintramide
16. The Salts of Hydrazinium, Hydroxylammonium, and Nitronium
17. Metal Perchlorates and Nitrates, Metal Salts of Dinitramide
18. Basic Aspects of the Combustion Mechanism
19. Combustion of Pure Substances: Reactions in the Condensed Phase
20. Combustion of Pure Substances: Reactions in the Gas Phase
21. Combustion of Pure Substances: Reactions in the Condensed and Gas Phases
22. Combustion of Condensed Composite Systems

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