Synthesis of High Energy Density Materials Based on Strained Ring Chemistry

摘要

Several new cyclopropenes were synthesized and evaluated as new High Energy Density Material (HEDM) candidates. An optimized synthetic route to 1.1. 1 propellane was developed and several bicyclo1.1.1pentanes were prepared and evaluated as HEDM materials. Preliminary work toward the preparation and study of bicyclo1.1.1pentyl carbenes under inert gas matrix isolation conditions was undertaken. Several new prismane derivatives were prepared and their stuctures determined by X-ray crystallography.