Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 8, Issue 12, Pages 1234-1264Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/i8121234
Keywords
nitroaromatic / nitramine explosives; structural / activity relationships; degradation mechanisms
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Although much has been discovered, discussed and written as to problems of contamination by various military unique compounds, particularly by the nitrogen based energetics (NOCs), remaining problems dictate further evaluation of actual and potential risk to the environment by these energetics and their derivatives and metabolites through determination of their environmental impact-transport, fate and toxicity. This work comprises an effort to understand structural relationships and degradation mechanisms of current and emerging explosives, including nitroaromatic; cyclic and cage cyclic nitramine; and a nitrocubane. This review of our computational chemistry and spectroscopic research describes and compares competitive degradation mechanisms by free radical oxidative, reductive and alkali hydrolysis, relating them, when possible, to environmental risk.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available