Evidence of Nitrate Formation from the Thermal Decay of Alkali Metal Dinitramides

✍ Scribed by Matthew D. Cliff; Matthew W. Smith; Darren P. Edwards

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 67 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0721-3115
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4087(199902)24:1<43::aid-prep43>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

The thermal decomposition products of ®ve alkali metal dinitramides were examined by mass spectral and X-ray diffraction analysis. All ®ve salt residues (Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs) showed no evidence of the parent dinitramide by mass spectrometry and showed only metal nitrate adducts to be present. X-ray diffraction patterns of the decay residues matched JCPDS reference patterns and con®rmed that the dinitramide salts thermally decomposed to their respective alkali metal nitrate.