DTIC AD0705113: COMPLEX METAL HYDRIDES. HIGH ENERGY FUEL COMPONENTS FOR SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET MOTORS

by: Defense Technical Information Center

Publication date: 1970-05-01

Topics: DTIC Archive, Ashby, E C, GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, *HYDRIDES, *MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS, *SOLID ROCKET FUELS, *BORANES, AMINES, MANGANATES, THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS, DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS, ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS, SYNTHESIS(CHEMISTRY), COMPLEX COMPOUNDS, ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS,

Collection: dticarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

Work was carried out to prepare new and unusual simple and complex metal hydrides of the main group metals, lithium, beryllium, magnesium, boron and aluminum. The philosophy of the endeavor was to pursue both the understanding of fundamental chemical reactions in the hydride area that are poorly understood or incorrectly reported as well as directing major attention to the synthesis of new compounds. The most notable contributions of the present report are the synthesis of the first alkali metal magnesium hydrides (KMgH3, NaMg2H5), the first stable HMgX compounds (HMgNR2), the development of extremely economic routes to aminoalanes (HA1(NR2)2) and aminoboranes (HB(NR2)2), first synthesis of RMgH compounds, the completion of detailed mechanistic studies of several fundamental reactions in the hydride area, and the inauguration of DTA-TGA investigations of both simple and complex metal hydrides.