Study of TATP: Spontaneous transformation of TATP to DADP - Full paper

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 484-488

  Matyáš, Robert ^a   Pachman, Jiri ^b   Ang, How Ghee ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARDUBICE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

3,3,6,6,9,9 hexamethyl 1,2, 4,5,7,8 hexoxonane; 3,3,6,6 tetramethyl 1,2,4,5 tetroxane; DADP; TATP; Transformation

Indexed keywords

FASTER RATES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLAR RATIO; SPONTANEOUS TRANSFORMATION; STORAGE TEMPERATURES; TETRAMETHYL; TIN CHLORIDES;

ACETONE; ACIDS; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; NITRIC ACID; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 73349124484     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: 15214087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.200800043     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Fedoroff B. T. and Sheffield O. E., Encyclopedia of explosives and related items, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, 1960.
2. Khmjelnickij L. I., Spravocnik po vzryvcatym vjescjestvam, Vojennaja orbjena Ljenina i orbjena Suvorova artilljerijskaja inzjenjernaja akadjemija imjeni F. E. Dzjerzinskogo, Moskva, 1962.
3. N. A. Milas, A. Golubovic, Studies in organic peroxides. XXVI. Organic peroxides derived from acetone and hydrogen peroxide, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1959, 81, 6461.
4. R. Wolffenstein, Ueber die Einwirkung von Wasserstoffsu-peroxyd auf Aceton und Mesityloxyd, Ber. Dtsch. Chem. Ges. 1895, 28, 2265.
5. R. Schulte-Ladbeck, P. Kolla, U. Karst, Trace analysis of peroxide-based explosives, Anal. Chem. 2003, 75, 731.
6. A. J. Pena QuevedoL. Pacheco-Londono, J. Figueroa, L. A. Rivera-Montalvo, F. R. Roman-Velazquez, S. P. Hernandez-Rivera, Characterization and differentiation of high energy cyclic organic peroxides by GC/FT-IR, GC-MS, FT-IR and Raman Microscopy, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense IV, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5778, p. 347-358, Orlando, FL, May 20, 2005.
7. L. Widmer, S. Watson, K. Schlatter, A. Crowson, Development of an LC/MS method for the trace analysis of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), Analyst 2002, 127, 1627.
8. A. J. Bellamy, Triacetone Triperoxide: its Chemical Destruction, J. Forensic Sci. 1999, 44, 603.
9. R. Matyas, and J. Pachman, Study of TATP: Influence of reaction conditions on product composition, Propellants, Explos., Pyrotech. DOI 10.1002/prep.200800044.
10. R. Matyas, J. Pachman, Study of TATP: Spontaneous Transformation of TATP to DADP, Propellants, Explos., Pyrotech. 2008, 33, 89.
11. R. Matyas, J. Pachman Thermal stability of triacetone triperoxide, Sci. Technol. Energ. Mater. 2007, 68, 111.
12. F. Dubnikova, R. Kosloff, J. Almog, Y. Zeiri, R. Boese, H. Itzhaky, A. Alt, E. Keinan Decomposition of Triacetone Triperoxide is an Entropic Explosion, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 1146.