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DMDNB
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DMDNB, or also DMNB, chemically 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane, is a volatile organic compound used as a detection taggant for explosives, mostly in the United States where it is virtually the only such taggant in use. Dogs are very sensitive to it and can detect as little as 0.5 parts per billion in the air, as can specialised ion mobility spectrometers. Its presence allows more reliable explosive detection.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C6H12N2O4
- Molecular weight
- 176.17 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane
- SMILES
- CC(C)(C(C)(C)[N+](=O)[O-])[N+](=O)[O-]
- InChIKey
- DWCLXOREGBLXTD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1
- Polar surface area
- 91.6 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 176.079707
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- canonical SMILES
- CC(C)(C(C)(C)[N+](=O)[O-])[N+](=O)[O-]
- chemical formula
- C₆H₁₂N₂O₄
- Commons category
- 2,3-Dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane
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Encyclopedic overview
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DMDNB, or also DMNB, chemically 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane, is a volatile organic compound used as a detection taggant for explosives, mostly in the United States where it is virtually the only such taggant in use. Dogs are very sensitive to it and can detect as little as 0.5 parts per billion in the air, as can specialised ion mobility spectrometers. Its presence allows more reliable explosive detection.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DMDNB” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.