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US 3,941,853 AGranted
Substituted polynitro-diphenylmethanes
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsKathryn G. Shipp, Lloyd A. Kaplan
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Abstract
A polynitro-benzophenone having at least 4 nitro substituents and useful as high energy explosive composition. A polynitro-diphenylmethane intermediate which may be oxidized to provide the aforesaid benzophenones. A process for preparing the aforesaid intermediate and the process for oxidizing the aforesaid intermediate to the benzophenone.
Claims20
The substituted ditan of the formula, ##SPC3##
- wherein each R and R' is a radical selected from the group consisting of nitro, halo, hydrogen, lower alkyl, cyano, amino, phenyl, nitrophenyl, alkylphenyl, halonitrophenyl, styryl, nitrostyryl, halonitrostyryl, benzyl, nitrobenzyl, halonitrobenzyl and mixtures thereof providing that at least one R radical and at least three R' radicals are nitro.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.