The high nitrogen content, high heat of formation and low lying π system of tetrazines make them ideal candidates for the synthesis of energetic materials that are photochemically and electrochemically active. Tuning of these properties can be accomplished through substitution on the tetrazines, or through binding of metal centers. Accordingly complexes of non-energetic and energetic tetrazine ligands with first row transition metal salts have been synthesized and characterized.

First row transition metal complexes of tetrazine based ligands as a new class of energetic materials

249th National Meeting (2015)

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