A series of bridged 2,2-bi(1,3,4-oxadiazole) energetic derivatives were designed and their geometrical structures, electronic structures, heats of formation, detonation properties, thermal stabilities and thermodynamic properties were fully investigated by density functional theory. The results showed that the -N 3 group and the -Nbridge play an important role in improving heats of formation of these 2,2bi(1,3,4-oxadiazole) derivatives. The calculated detonation properties indicated that the -NF 2 group and the -Nbridge were very useful for enhancing the heats of detonation, detonation velocities and detonation pressures. Twenty-four compounds were found to possess equal or higher detonation properties than those of RDX, while 14 compounds had equal or higher detonation properties than those of HMX. The analysis of the bond-dissociation energies suggested that the -CN group was the effective structural unit for increasing the thermal stabilities while the -NHNH 2 group decreased these values.Overall, taking both the detonation properties and thermal stabilities into consideration, 22 compounds (A4, A6, A8, A9, B4, B9, C2, C3, C4, C5, C7, C, C9 D4, D8, D9, E9, F4, F9, G9, H4 and H9) were selected as the potential candidates for high-energy-density materials.Scheme 1 Synthetic route of ICM-101. Scheme 2The designed molecules based on bridged 2,2-bi(1,3,4-oxadiazole).5418 | RSC Adv., 2019,9,[5417][5418][5419][5420][5421][5422][5423][5424][5425][5426][5427][5428][5429][5430] This journal is

A family of biheterocyclic energetic materials based on 1,3‐diazocyclopentane were synthesized and characterized by IR, NMR, MS, and elemental analysis. The crystal structures of compounds 8 and 9 were determined by single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction. Heats of formation, detonation properties were calculated by isodesmic reactions and Kamlet–Jacobs equations, respectively. The safety parameters associated with impact sensitivity and friction sensitivity were also investigated. It is noteworthy that compounds 5 and 6 possess excellent detonation properties (detonation velocities were 8.89 and 8.66 km s–1; detonation pressures were 35.8 and 32.7 GPa, respectively) and acceptable sensitivities (impact sensitivities were 10 and 13 J; friction sensitivities were 103 and 87 N, respectively). In addition, electronic properties (such as frontier molecular orbitals, electronic densities and electrostatic potentials) of compounds 5 and 6 were also simulated accurately to give an assessment of their physicochemical properties.

A new family of asymmetric oxadiazole based energetic compounds were designed. Their electronic structures, heats of formation, detonation properties and stabilities were investigated by density functional theory. The results show that all the designed compounds have high positive heats of formation ranging from 115.4 to 2122.2 kJ mol−1. −N− bridge/−N3 groups played an important role in improving heats of formation while −O− bridge/−NF2 group made more contributions to the densities of the designed compounds. Detonation properties show that some compounds have equal or higher detonation velocities than RDX, while some other have higher detonation pressures than RDX. All the designed compounds have better impact sensitivities than those of RDX and HMX and meet the criterion of thermal stability. Finally, some of the compounds were screened as the candidates of high energy density compounds with superior detonation properties and stabilities to that of HMX and their electronic properties were investigated.