Saturday, January 10, 2009

Azidotetrazolate Salts

In the Pipeline had a fun post Things I Won't Work With: Azidotetrazolate Salts "The authors report a whole series of salts, X-ray structures and all, which range from the ‘relatively stable’ lithium and sodium derivatives all the way to things that couldn’t even be isolated. In the latter category is the rubidium salt, which they tried to prepare several times. In every case, the solution detonated spontaneously on standing. And by ‘spontaneously’, they mean ‘while standing undisturbed in the dark’, so there’s really just no way to deal with this stuff."

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