Hydrogen
bonding is an important noncovalent interaction that plays
a key role in most of the CHNO-based energetic materials, which has
a great impact on the structural, stability, and vibrational properties.
By analyzing the structural changes, IR spectra, and the Hirshfeld
surfaces, we investigated the high-pressure behavior of 3,6-dihydrazino-
s
-tetrazine (DHT) to provide detailed description of hydrogen
bonding interactions using dispersion-corrected density functional
theory. The strengthening of hydrogen bonding is observed by the pressure-induced
weakening of covalent N–H bonds, which is consistent with the
red shift of NH/NH
2
stretching vibrational modes. The intermolecular
interactions in DHT crystals lead to more compact and stable structures
that can increase the density but diminish the heat of detonation,
Q
. The calculated detonation properties of DHT (
D
= 7.62 km/s,
P
= 25.19 GPa) are slightly
smaller than those of a similar explosive 3,6-bis-nitroguanyl-1,2,4,5-tetrazine
(
D
= 7.9 km/s,
P
= 27.36 GPa). Overall,
the crystallographic and spectroscopic results along with Hirshfeld
surface analysis as a function of pressure reveal the presence of
strong hydrogen bonding networks in the crystal structure of DHT.