TY - JOUR AB - An improved synthesis of the simplest nitric acid ester, methyl nitrate, and a new synthesis of fluoromethyl nitrate use the metathesis of the corresponding iodomethanes with silver nitrate. Both compounds were identified by spectroscopy and the structures determined for in situ grown crystals by X-ray diffraction as well as in the gas phase by electron diffraction. Fluorination leads to structures with shorter C-O and N-O bonds, has an energetically destabilizing effect and increases friction sensitivity, but decreases detonation performance. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. DA - 2019 DO - 10.1002/anie.201911300 LA - eng IS - 51 M2 - 18557 PY - 2019 SN - 1433-7851 SP - 18557-18561 T2 - Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) TI - Solid-State and Gas-Phase Structures and Energetic Properties of the Dangerous Methyl and Fluoromethyl Nitrates UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29390399 Y2 - 2024-11-22T05:12:00 ER -