A patient had extensive blunt trauma from a high-speed crash in which nitromethane fuel erupted from the fuel tank and soaked into his protective multilayer jumpsuit. The clinical diagnosis was complicated because the absorption of nitromethane fuel through the skin and by inhalation falsely increased the serum creatinine value when a modified Jaffe reaction was used in the laboratory. This spu...

We have compared the combustion of the monopropellant nitromethane with that of nitromethane containing colloidal particles of functionalized graphene sheets or metal hydroxides. The linear steady-state burning rates of the monopropellant and colloidal suspensions were determined at room temperature, under a range of pressures (3.35-14.4 MPa) using argon as a pressurizing fluid. The ignition te...

the potential energy hyper surfaces (fes) of the unimolecular rearrangements of a) nitromethane itei totrans acknitromethane b) nitrometharie (/) to methyl nitrite (3) and c) naromethane decomposition tomethyl and nitrogen dioxide were searched using the ab !nth° mp2 method. split valence 6-310(d.p) basisset was used for geometry optimizations, frequency and 1rc computations along each reaction...

Combustion analysis has been conducted on a small two-stroke glow ignition engine, which has similar combustion characteristics to homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines. Difficulties such as unknown ignition timing and the polytropic index have been addressed by combining both heat release and mass fraction burn analyses. Results for all operating conditions have shown good cor...

Using a simple flow reactor, the safe use of nitromethane at elevated reaction temperatures was demonstrated in a nitro aldol reaction of different aldehydes. The reaction products were isolated in good yields after a short reaction time. Introduction Nitromethane has been shown to have extensive energetic properties and been used as a fuel and explosive for many years [1]. Its explosive proper...

Fluorescent nanoscale coordination polymers with cubic morphology and long range ordered structure were fabricated and exhibited efficient sensing for both nitroaromatic explosive and nitromethane due to large surface area to volume ratio and strong binding affinity to explosive molecules.

In the present study stability of various known solvates of quinapril hydrochloride has been compared with nitromethane solvate. Nitromethane solvate was found to be more stable compared to other known solvates. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of quinapril nitromethane solvate shows intermolecular hydrogen bonding between quinapril molecule and nitromethane. Stabilization of quinapril...

Solid nitromethane (CH3NO2) along with its isotopically labelled counterpart D3-nitromethane (CD3NO2) ices were exposed to Lyman α photons to investigate the mechanism involved in the decomposition of energetic materials in the condensed phase. The chemical processes in the ices were monitored online and in situ via infrared spectroscopy complimented by temperature programmed desorption studies...

The high diastereoselectivity in the Michael addition of nitromethane to α,β-unsaturated γ-amino esters, crystal conformations of β-nitromethane substituted γ-amino acids and peptides are studied. Results suggest that the N-Boc protected amide NH, conformations of α,β-unsaturated γ-amino esters and alkyl side chains play a crucial role in dictating the high diastereoselectivity of nitromethane ...