Thermal decomposition of 1-ethyl-5-iodotetrazole

The thermal decomposition of 1-ethyl-5-iodotetrazole in a melt and in solutions was studied using thermogravimetry, manometry, pyrolytic mass spectrometry, and IR spectroscopy. The kinetic and activation parameters of the process and the nature of the decomposition products were determined. The reaction mechanism is assumed to involve equilibrium tautomeric rearrangement of the tetrazole to azidoazomethine form followed by homolytic cleavage of the C-I bond.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 1923–1926, November, 1994.The authors are grateful to O. A. Ivashkevich and P. N. Gaponic (Belarussian State University), who provided the samples of the tetrazole.