title: A multivariate relationship for the impact sensitivities of energetic N-nitrocompounds based on bond dissociation energy.
abstract: The ZPE-corrected N-NO(2) bond dissociation energies (BDEs(ZPE)) of a series of model N-nitrocompounds and typical energetic N-nitrocompounds have been calculated using density functional theory methods. Computed results show that using the 6-31G** basis set the UB3LYP calculated BDE(ZPE) is similar to the B3PW91 but is less than the UB3P86 and that for both UB3P86 and UB3PW91 methods the 6-31G(**) calculated BDE(ZPE) is close to the 6-31++G(**). For the series of model N-nitrocompounds it is drawn from the NBO analysis that at the UB3LYP/6-31G(**) level the order of BDE(ZPE) is not only in line with that of bond order but also with that of the energy gap between N-NO(2) bond and antibond orbitals. For the typical energetic N-nitrocompounds the impact sensitivity is strongly related to the BDE(ZPE) indeed, and based on the BDEs(ZPE) calculated at different density functional theory levels this work has established a good multivariate correlation of impact sensitivity with molecular parameters, which provides a method to address the sensitivity problem.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, PO Box 919-311, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. ljs915@263.net
authors.forename: Jinshan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D017672:Nitrogen Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D017672:Nitrogen Compounds