Quantum Chemical Investigations of the Mechanism of Cationic Polymerization and Theoretical Prediction of Crystal Densities and Decomposition Pathways of Energetic Molecules.

Abstract

This study involves: Ab-initio crystal orbitals and polymer orbitals; Ab-initio coupled cluster program; Ab-initio quantum chemical calculations and electrostatic molecular potential contour maps for cationic polymerization; Prediction of crystal density; Ab-initio calculations on polynitropolyhedranes and polynitropolyazapolyhedranes; Ab-initio configuration interaction calculations on the CH3-N02 decomposition pathway of nitromethane; Ab-initio configuration interaction calculations on RDX; and Conversion of our programs to vector supercomputers, CYBER 205 and CRAY.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 28, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137271

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People

  • J. J. Kaufman

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Crystal Structure
  • Electric Fields
  • Energy Bands
  • Energy Levels
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Chemistry
  • Physics

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