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United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 4,839,420 Gilbert 45 Date of Patent: Jun United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 4,839,420 Gilbert 45 Date of Patent: Jun. 13, 1989 (54) PREPARATION OF POLYVINYLAZIDES 4,279,672 7/1981 Lenevew et al. ................ 149/19.91 FROM POLYVNYLNTRATE 4,288,262 9/1981 Flanagan et al. ... 149/19.1 4,440,687 4/1984 Witucki et al. ...... ... 149/19.1 (75) Inventor: Everett E. Gilbert, Morristown, N.J. 4,450,110 5/1984 Simmons et al. ... ... 260/349 (73) Assignee: The United States of America as 4,483,978 11/1984 Monser ................................ 260/349 represented by the Secretary of the FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS Army, Washington, D.C. 911759 7/1946 France .................................. 149/88 (21) Appl. No.: 600,869 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) Filed: Apr. 16, 1984 Meyer, Explosives, p. 221, Verlag Chemie (1977), New 51) Int. Cl.' ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C08F8/30 York. 52 U.S.C. ................................... 525/61; 149/1991; 525/330.5; 525/367 Primary Examiner-Edward A. Miller (58) Field of Search ............... 525/328.2, 328.8, 326.7, Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Robert P. Gibson; Edward 525/61, 56,330.5, 367; 149/19.1, 19.91 Goldberg; Edward F. Costigan 56 References Cited 57 ABSTRACT U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS Polyvinylazidonitrate and a process of making the same H103 8/1986 Gilbert ............................. 525/331.5 by reacting polyvinylnitrate with sodium or lithium H272 5/1987 Gilbert ........ ... 525/328.8 azide in selected solvents. 3,401,156 9/1968 Lovett et al. ... 525/328.2 3,965,081 6/1976 Strecker et al.. ... 149/19.91 4,098,193 7/1978 Schroeder ............................. 102/92 10 Claims, No Drawings 4,839,420 1. 2 reaction rate is obtained with lithium azide apparently PREPARATION OF POLYVNYLAZIDES FROM because of its much higher solubility in DMF. POLY WINYLNTRATE The reaction is preferably carried out at a tempera ture not substantially exceeding 80 C. to avoid cross GOVERNMENT RIGHTS linking of the polymeric azides and the production of crosslinked products, which are insoluble in solvents The invention described herein may be manufac such as acetone. Both crosslinked and non-crosslinked tured, used and licensed by the Government for Gov products are suitable for use as energetic materials; ernmental purposes without the payment to me of any however, the non-crosslinked products are preferred, royalties thereon. 10 since they are soluble in solvents such as acetone and BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION can be employed to make solutions wih other materials such as nitrocellulose. Thus, in a series of six reactions Energetic compounds having a high nitrogen content each of seven hours duration carried out at tempera are employed as ingredients of solid propellants for 15 tures ranging from 50° C. to 95° C. the products ob guns and rockets. Such compounds do not contribute to tained at temperatures from 50° C. to 75° C. were all smoke and flash and their main combustion product is soluble in acetone, whereas at 85°C. 5% of the product nitrogen, an extremely stable molecule showing little was insoluble in acetone and at 95 C. over 50% of the tendency to react even at the high temperatures gener product obtained was insoluble in acetone. When the ated in gun tubes. Propellant compounds, which yield 20 reaction was carried out at 65° C. for a much longer combustion products rich in nitrogen, are further ad period of 118 hours, the reaction product was still com vantageous in that they cause less gun erosion than pletely soluble in acetone. compounds giving the same flame temperature but of Solvents also vary in their influence on the produc lower nitrogen content. tion of crosslinked reaction products. For example, Compounds of high nitrogen content can be pro 25 considerable crosslinking resulted when polyvinylni trate was reacted with sodium azide in DMSO at room duced by introduction of the azide group into the mole temperature after 72 hours, whereas no crosslinking cule. Azide compounds are of interest, since they (1) resulted when the reaction was carried out in DMF at provide good impetus, (2) yield low flame temperatures, 65 C. for 118 hours. Further, the method of isolation of (3) produce less flash, (4) accelerate the burn rate, and 30 the solid reaction product can influence crosslinking. (5) can possess good thermal and chemical stability. For example, in experiments described and tabulated SUMMARY AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF below, if the solid reaction product, after trituration THE INVENTION with methanol, is dissolved in acetone shortly after preparation, e.g. within six hours, it remains in solution The present invention is directed to the preparation 35 indefinitely. However, if the solid reaction product is of polyvinylazides, particularly polyvinylazidonitrates, held for a longer period, e.g. twelve hours, it becomes i.e. vinyl polymers containing both azide (-N3) and crosslinked and completely insoluble in acetone. nitrate (-ONO2) groups, which are useful as propel The following examples illustrate specific embodi lants for guns, rockets and the like. It is believed that ments of the novel polyvinylazidonitrate propellants polyvinylazidonitrates are novel although polymers and method for producing same according to the pro containing only azide groups, e.g. glycerylazide poly cess of the present invention. mer, and only nitrate groups, e.g. polyvinylnitrate, are well known as gun propellants. EXAMPLE A The novel polyvinylazides can be prepared by react 45 Polyvinyl nitrate (containing a minimum of 14.7% ing polyvinylnitrate with a metallic azide in a solvent nitrogen, corresponding to 93.5% of the total possible for the polyvinylnitrate and the metal azide at a temper nitrate groups) (1.0 g) was mixed with sodium azide (2.0 ature and for a period of time sufficient to effect re g) in dimethyl sulfoxide (25 ml.). The mixture was placement of a nitrate group by an azide group. stirred at room temperature for 47 hours, and then The degree of substitution of the nitrate groups by 50 poured into water. The resulting gummy solid was azide groups can vary from about 5 to about 95%, and thoroughly triturated with water, then with methanol is determined by the stoichiometry, as well as by the and dried, yielding 1.0 g of product. An analysis of the time and temperature of reaction. Suitable metal azides product revealed a nitrogen content of 33.1%, and the are preferably alkali metal azides, e.g. sodium, potas 55 infrared spectrum showed the present of both azide and sium and lithium azide, and alkaline earth metal azides, nitrate groups. such as calcium, magnesium and barium azides, al EXAMPLE B though any stable metal azide can be employed in the Polyvinylnitrate of the type employed in example 1 process of the present invention. 60 (1.0g) was heated with sodium azide (1.0 g) in dimethyl The reaction is carried out in a solvent in which the formamide (25 ml) at 60° C. for 3 hours. The reaction polyvinylnitrate or the metal azide or both are soluble. mixture was worked up as described in example 1, yield Suitable solvents include dimethyl formamide (DMF), ing 1.0 g of a rubbery solid containing 33.9% nitrogen. dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), N-methylpyrrolidinone Table 1 sets forth the reaction conditions and results (NMP), acetone and 2-methoxyethanol. The preferred 65 of experiments made using the same polyvinylnitrate solvent is DMF, particularly with sodium azide, even starting material as in example 1. The reaction products though the sodium azide is only slightly soluble in DMF and course of the reaction were identified by elemental (about 0.5g/100 ml DMF at 155° C), although a higher analysis and infrared spectra. 4,839,420 3 4 TABLE Example Reagents Solvent Grms. Analysis - No. PVN NaN3 Name M. C. Hrs. Yld. C H N Total Remarks 1 10 O DMSO 25 25 22 0.9 o 2 FF DMF A. 60 3 10 33.9 orm 3 t DMSO 25 46 - - 32.3 4. it f f 97 1.6 ww. --- Insolubles noted after 72 hrs. 5 0.5 f 46 2.1 - - 22.3 ww. 6 2.0 f 47 1.0 - - 33. w 7 1.1 1.0(1) Acetone 56 9.5 r ww. 8 1.0(1) N-CH3 25 46.5 1.2 wo w Pyrr. 9 1.0 Acetone Af 56 24 1.4 - w O DMF AA 60 3 O 1. "(1) N-CH3 25 96 0.9 orm Pyrr. 2 1.0 f DMF p 50 5 o 3 6.0 6.0 150 t 5 Wy w 4. 1. 1.0 25 r 7.5 0.9 36.9 45 39.8 79.3 15 .0 (2) a t m w 16 l DMF rt 16 0.9 m w 17 r 24 10 -- a w 18 2.0 Ay r 48 0.9 38.8 4.5 43.8 87.1 19 a f 120 0.9 Af 20 4.8 6.0 100 t 48 3.2 38.8 4.8 43.9 87.5 2 1.1 1.0 25 65 9 0.9 - 22 t FF FF 24 f ww w 23 p a 47 1.1 39.0 4.5 50.4 93.9 24 t t te FF ' 118 1.5 39.2 4.6 50.6 94.4 25 5.3 5.0 r 125 fr 47 5.4 39.9 4.5 48.8 93.2 (4) 26 5.5 5.0 f 125 t 47 5.6 wa- - (4) 27 5.5 5.0 Fr 47 5.9(5) - - - (4) 28 . 1.O it 25 24 0.9(5) 39.1 4.7 50.7 94.5 29 F f 7 1.0(5) 38.4 4.7 49.6 92.7 30 F 15 1.0(5).
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