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FOX-7
Sign in to saveFOX-7 or 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (DADNE) is an insensitive high explosive compound. It was first synthesized in 1998 by the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA). According to other information it was synthesized in the USSR in 1990. The name FOX-7 is derived from the acronym of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), with the I replaced by an X to indicate an explosive, as in RDX and HMX.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C2H4N4O4
- Molecular weight
- 148.08 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2,2-dinitroethene-1,1-diamine
- SMILES
- C(=C([N+](=O)[O-])[N+](=O)[O-])(N)N
- InChIKey
- FUHQFAMVYDIUKL-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -0.8
- Polar surface area
- 144 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 6
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 148.023
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- canonical SMILES
- C(=C([N+](=O)[O-])[N+](=O)[O-])(N)N
- chemical formula
- C₂H₄N₄O₄
- Commons category
- Diaminodinitroethylene
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FOX-7 or 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (DADNE) is an insensitive high explosive compound. It was first synthesized in 1998 by the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOA). According to other information it was synthesized in the USSR in 1990. The name FOX-7 is derived from the acronym of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), with the I replaced by an X to indicate an explosive, as in RDX and HMX.
FOX-7 is similar to the insensitive chemical compound TATB, which is a benzene ring compound with three amino and three nitro groups. FOX-7 has a two-carbon backbone rather than a benzene ring, but the amino and nitro groups have similar effects in both cases according to published reports on the sensitivity and chemical decay processes of FOX-7. FOX-7 is stoichiometrically identical (but structurally unrelated) to the explosives and propellants RDX and HMX, and therefore produces the same quantity of gas per gram, a key determinant of performance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FOX-7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.