Thermally stable 3,6-disubstituted 1,2,4,5-tetrazines

Abstract

Several 3,6-disubstituted 1,2,4,5-tetrazines were synthesized by nucleophilic substitution using 3,6-bis-(3,5-dimethyl-pyrazol-1-yl)-1,2,4,5- tetrazine and 3,6-dichloro-1,2,4,5-tetrazine as electrophiles. All new compounds were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and vibrational spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and elemental analysis (C,H,N). For analysis of the thermostability, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used. Especially, the symmetrically bis-3,5-diamino-1,2,4- triazolyl-substituted derivative shows a very high thermal stability up to 370 °C. Therefore its energetic properties were determined and compared with thoses of hexanitrostilbene (HNS). The crystal structures of 3,6-bishydrazino-1,2,4,5- tetrazine, 3,6-dichloro-1,2,4,5-tetrazine and 3-amino-6-(3,5- diamino-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine dihydrate have been determined by low-temperature X-ray diffraction. © 2013 Verlag der Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, Tübingen.