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US 12,215,089 B1Granted
Energetic compound embodiments and methods of making and using the same
AssigneesTriad National Security, LLC, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsDavid Chavez, Jesse Sabatini, Pablo Guzmán, Leah Wingard, Eric Johnson
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an energetic compound and methods of making and using the same. Energetic compound embodiments disclosed herein exhibit physical and chemical properties that facilitate their use in various applications, such as high energy propellant plasticizers, melt-castable explosives, and the like. Efficient and safe method embodiments for making the disclosed energetic compound embodiments are described herein.
Claims5
A method, comprising:
- exposing a bis-oxadiazole product to a nitrating agent to provide a bis-oxadiazole dinitrate, wherein the bis-oxadiazole product has a structure of a formula
- wherein each Y independently is aliphatic-OH or aliphatic-OPG, wherein PG is a hydroxyl protecting group and the nitrating agent is HNO3.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.