Isopropyl nitrate

• Salpetersäureisopropylester
• IPN
• Nitric acid 1- methylethyl ester
• 1- Methylethylnitrat
• Isonit

Colorless liquid

Liquid

1.04 g · cm -3 ( 20 ° C)

101 ° C.

36 hPa ( 20 ° C)

Practically insoluble in water

1.391 (20 ° C)

Risk

-229.7 KJ / mol

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Isopropyl nitrate, also called IPN, the nitric acid ester of isopropanol, a colorless to yellowish oily liquid.

Properties

In pure form, and in the liquid state isopropyl nitrate is bringing hardly detonated, but the vapor / air mixtures are highly explosive and react much more violently than normal fuel / air mixtures. At room temperature, it is an oily liquid with a pungent spicy, but also sweet, fruity odor. The fumes are toxic as similar to that of most other short-chain alkyl nitrates such as methyl nitrate and ethyl nitrate. They cause by prolonged exposure usually headache and dizziness and damage associated with chronic exposure the internal organs, especially the lungs and liver, and nervous system.

Representation

Is produced by esterification of isopropanol isopropyl nitrate with nitric acid or nitrating better. Autocatalyzed a side reaction is the oxidation of isopropanol to acetone to give oxides of nitrogen, which is substantially exothermic, when the nitration reaction and may extend in an uncontrolled manner in the lack of temperature control and high levels of nitric acid.

Use

IPN is used primarily as a rocket and jet fuel and as an additive to diesel fuel. The Russian rocket launcher RPO -A melt and TOS -1 use IPN as a component of thermobaren warheads.