QUALITATIVE ESTIMATION OF THE DEPENDENCE OF THE NUMBER OF ENERGETIC COMPOUNDS ON THEIR OXYGEN COEFFICIENT

The ratio between the numbers of structural formulas of C,H,N,O-contai ning energetic compounds belonging to the classes of fuels (tow values of the oxygen coefficient A), explosives (medium A), and oxidants (hi gh A values) was studied by a computer generation procedure. The numbe r of the theoretically possible structural formulas was found to decre ase rapidly an going from fuels to explosives and then to oxidants; th is observation agrees with the data on the numbers of various energeti c compounds currently used and proposed. The strategy of the search fo r new compounds with the specified properties is described in brief, a nd its applicability to the search for explosives and oxidants with a small (up to 12) number of atoms in a molecule is evaluated.