期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
卷 39, 期 19, 页码 1236-1248出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25186
关键词
energetic materials; density functional theory; Wiberg bond index; trigger bonds; energetic properties
资金
- Virginia Space Grant Consortium
The identification of trigger bonds, bonds that break to initiate explosive decomposition, using computational methods could help direct the development of novel, green and efficient high energy density materials (HEDMs). Comparing bond densities in energetic materials to reference molecules using Wiberg bond indices (WBIs) provides a relative scale for bond activation (%WBIs) to assign trigger bonds in a set of 63 nitroaromatic conventional energetic molecules. Intramolecular hydrogen bonding interactions enhance contributions of resonance structures that strengthen, or deactivate, the CNO2 trigger bonds and reduce the sensitivity of nitroaniline-based HEDMs. In contrast, unidirectional hydrogen bonding in nitrophenols strengthens the bond to the hydrogen bond acceptor, but the phenol lone pairs repel and activate an adjacent nitro group. Steric effects, electron withdrawing groups and greater nitro dihedral angles also activate the CNO2 trigger bonds. %WBIs indicate that nitro groups within an energetic molecule are not all necessarily equally activated to contribute to initiation. %WBIs generally correlate well with impact sensitivity, especially for HEDMs with intramolecular hydrogen bonding, and are a better measure of trigger bond strength than bond dissociation energies (BDEs). However, the method is less effective for HEDMs with significant secondary effects in the solid state. Assignment of trigger bonds using %WBIs could contribute to understanding the effect of intramolecular interactions on energetic properties. (c) 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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