Posted: Jul 01, 2013 12:03 am
So this molecule is C(CO3N)4 ... looks like something that the Klapötke lab would work with. After all, they work with other molecules that have, shall we say, interesting bond strain and exothermicity issues, such as nitrotetrazole oxides, azidoazide azides (if you have to ask, this handy page reveals all the horrors), the gloriously named hexanitrohexaazaisowurzitane, a poly-nitro cage compound (go here for the structural formula, and its interesting properties), and azidotetrazole salts. In the case of the latter, this is a suitably humorous account of why only the extremely curious (not to mention deranged) even think of playing with these substances (though to be fair, Klapötke and his team manage to survive their explorations of the wilder frontiers of poly-nitro chemistry by being extremely careful).