An EPR study of the thermal decomposition of molten 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene and its isotopic analogs

✍ Scribed by Jon T. Swanson; Larry P. Davis; R. Cameron Dorey; W. Robert Carper

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 582 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0749-1581
• DOI: 10.1002/mrc.1260240906

✦ Synopsis

Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy has been used to probe the decomposition pathway of neat molten 2,4,6-trinitrotoiuene (TNT). The analogs of TNT labelled in the 2-, 2,6-, 4-and 2,4,6positions with =N, and labelled in the it-, 3,s-and a,3,5-position with *H have been studied, and their spectra recorded at 240 "C. The results indicate that the earliest observable radical produces a spectrum resulting from coupling with a para-N (aN=10.8G), five equivalent hydrogens (aH=2.7G) and two benzylic hydrogens (aH= 10.7 G):