The chemistry of aliphatic unconjugated nitramines. II. Intramolecular properties and crystal packing

Abstract

The VESCF(BJ)-MO electric dipole moments, molecular ionization potentials, electronic bond energies, charge distributions, and bond orders for nitramide, N-methylnitramine, and s- and as-N,N- dimethylnitramines are reported. The packing of nitramide, RDX, and HNX in their molecular crystals is rationalized in terms of electrostatic and hydrogen-bonding interactions. Simple VB structures do not readily predict their calculated MO charge distributions and bond orders.