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- Title
Towards Safer Rocket Fuels: Hypergolic Imidazolylidene-Borane Compounds as Replacements for Hydrazine Derivatives.
- Authors
Shi Huang; Xiujuan Qi; Tianlin Liu; Kangcai Wang; Wenquan Zhang; Jianlin Li; Qinghua Zhang
- Abstract
Currently, toxic and volatile hydrazine derivatives are still the main fuel choices for liquid bipropellants, especially in some traditional rocket propulsion systems. Therefore, the search for safer hypergolic fuels as replacements for hydrazine derivatives has been one of the most challenging tasks. In this study, six imidazolylidene-borane compounds with zwitterionic structure have been synthesized and characterized, and their hypergolic reactivity has been studied. As expected, these compounds exhibited fast spontaneous combustion upon contact with white fuming nitric acid (WFNA). Among them, compound 5 showed excellent integrated properties including wide liquid operating range (-70-160°C), superior loading density (0.99 gcm-3), ultrafast ignition delay times with WFNA (15 ms), and high specific impulse (303.5 s), suggesting promising application potential as safer hypergolic fuels in liquid bipropellant formulations.
- Subjects
BORANES; HYDRAZINE; PROPELLANTS; CHEMICAL synthesis; NITRIC acid
- Publication
Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 2016, Vol 6, p10187
- ISSN
1861-4728
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/chem.201601343