Accession Number:
AD0503916
Title:
Thermal Decomposition Studies of a New Perchlorate Oxidizer
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept. Jul-Oct 1968
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE ROCKET PROPULSION LAB EDWARDS AFB CA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1969-05-01
Pagination or Media Count:
48.0
Abstract:
The initial step in the thermal decomposition of methylenedioxyamine diperchlorate occurs at 60 C with the loss of a perchloric acid group to form the monoacid salt as an intermediate. As the temperature increases, the latter undergoes a concerted cyclization - cleavage reaction to form formamide and hydroxylammonium perchlorate. Mass spectrometry was used to formulate a working hypothesis for the decomposition. The existence of each of the postulated intermediates in the reaction was verified by independent experiments.
Descriptors:
- *PERCHLORATES
- *SOLID ROCKET OXIDIZERS
- AMINES
- AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS
- DECOMPOSITION
- DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS
- HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVES
- IDENTIFICATION
- INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY
- MASS SPECTROSCOPY
- METHANE
- MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
- PERCHLORIC ACID
- REACTION KINETICS
- THERMAL STABILITY
- THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS
- X RAY DIFFRACTION
Subject Categories:
- Solid Rocket Propellants