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Azidoazole Azide is another classic from the "take a nasty little functional group and build a whole molecule out of them" family. https://www.science.org/cont
by paulmd 4y ago
Azidoazole Azide is another classic from the "take a nasty little functional group and build a whole molecule out of them" family.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-azidoazide-azides-more-or-less https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Fulminates and Azides are known for their physical sensitivity, they're the primary explosive used for the primers in gun cartridges. Azides are generally more sensitive than fulminates - mercury fulminate is an older primer compound where mercury azides are quite unstable and reactive.
Azidoazole Azide is basically an azide group bonded to an azole ring... azole is like pentane except with a nitrogen ring. So basically just one giant pile of nitrogen bonds looking for a reason to un-bond.
See also, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, although the name isn't nearly as suggestive, but that's a nice little molecular diagram right there too lol. "Thrillingly nitrogenated", would probably be the description.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
- dralley 4y agoThe Explosions and Fire channel synthesized it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y
- naniwaduni 4y ago> See also, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, although the name isn't nearly as suggestive, I don't know, hexa-nitro hexa-aza is one hell of a lede.