Kinetic compensation effect and thermolysis mechanisms of organic polynitroso and polynitro compounds

The present study starts from the published values of the Arrhenius parameters E_a and log A of thermolysis in the condensed state of seven nitrosamines and one hundred organic polynitro compounds. On the basis of the linear relationship between E_aand log A, the set studied has been divided into several reaction series, each of which is characterized by a mechanism of primary thermolysis. For compounds with intense intermolecular interactions in a crystal, the classification mentioned is codetermined by the stabilizing effect of the crystal lattice. In the context of this effect, the absence of an effect of solid-liquid transition on thermal reactivity of octogen (HMX) has been confirmed. The idea also presented is that, in the primary homolysis in thermolyses of polynitro compounds, there takes place a mutual interaction of molecules of the given compound, which is analogous to termination interactions of nitroarenes in radical polymerizations.