Organic Chemistry of Explosives
Chapter One
Synthetic Routes to Aliphatic
ITLITL-Nitro Functionality
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The nitro group, whether attached to aromatic or aliphatic carbon, is probably the most widely
studied of the functional groups and this is in part attributed to its use as an `explosophore' in
many energetic materials. The chemistry of the nitro group has been extensively reviewed in
several excellent works including in a functional group series.
A comprehensive discussion of the synthetic methods used to introduce the nitro group into
aliphatic compounds, and its diverse chemistry, would require more space than available in this
book. While every effort has been made to achieve this, some of these methods are given only
brief discussion because they have not as yet found use for the synthesis of energetic materials,
or their use is limited in this respect. The nature of energetic materials means that methods
used to introduce polynitro functionality are of prime importance and so these are discussed
in detail. Therefore, this work complements the last major ... read full excerpt from Organic Chemistry of Explosives ebook
