In hypergolic propellants, hypergolicity is an extremely important parameter in evaluating fuels. In this study, a new family of hypergolic metal (Cu2+, Ni2+, Zn2+) complexes with B12H12 2– were synthesized and fully characterized. Two of these six complexes exhibited ultrashort ignition delay times (ca. 1 ms), with white fuming nitric acid as the oxidizer, besides good physicochemical properties (decomposition temperatures: 221.8–286.3 °C; densities: 1.215–1.264 g cm–3). The results demonstrate their promising applications in bipropellant formulations.
Zejun Zhang;Yanqiang Zhang;Zhimin Li;Nianming Jiao;Long Liu;锁江 张
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
2018-2-28