<br/>Lead has been used as a burn rate additive within double base propellants since the end of World War II.  However, over the past decade, the Department of Defense (DoD) has attempted to replace lead with a less toxic metal that can still maintain the advantageous burn rate characteristics of leaded propellant. Within legacy propellants, propellant stabilizer was not bonded to lead. A potential path of removing lead would be to bond a less toxic metal to the stabilizer. We previously demonstrated that lead could be coordinated to commonly used propellant stabilizers to create unique energetic molecules.  This research expands on that previous work.  Using a gentle metathesis reaction, lead metal was replaced with less toxic metals in a variety of complexes and examined for feasibility to meet DoD requirements.<br/>

Less toxic double-base propellant burn rate modifiers prepared using post-transition metals and 2-NDPA

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