Simple and reliable approaches have been recently introduced to predict impact, electrostatic and shock sensitivities of energetic compounds [1][2][3][4][5][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].
Impact SensitivityThe impact sensitivity test involves subjecting a sample to the impact of the standard mass falling from different Abstract: Impact, electrostatic, and shock sensitivities of energetic compounds are three important parameters for the assessment of hazardous energetic materials. A novel easy to handle and user-friendly computer code, written in Visual Basic, is introduced to predict these parameters, by solely using the molecular structure of an energetic molecule. It is able to predict impact sensitivity for different types of energetic compounds including nitropyridines, nitroimidazoles, nitropyrazoles, nitrofurazanes, nitrotriazoles, nitropyrimidines, polynitro arenes, benzofuroxans, polynitro arenes with a-CH, nitramines, nitroaliphatics, nitroaliphatic containing other functional groups, and nitrate energetic compounds. It can also provide reliable results for electrostatic and shock sensitivities of some classes of high explosives including nitroaromatic and nitramine compounds. The prediction of this code give good values for some newly reported energetic compounds, where experimental data are available.