An experimental and theoretical study of the synthesis and vibrational spectroscopy of triacetone triperoxide (TATP)

Leonardo C. Pacheco-Londono; Alvaro J. Pena; Oliva M. Primera-Pedrozo; Samuel P. Hernandez-Rivera; Nairmen Mina; Rafael Garcia; R. Thomas Chamberlain; Richard T. Lareau

doi:10.1117/12.542851

15 September 2004 An experimental and theoretical study of the synthesis and vibrational spectroscopy of triacetone triperoxide (TATP)

Leonardo C. Pacheco-Londono, Alvaro J. Pena, Oliva M. Primera-Pedrozo, Samuel P. Hernandez-Rivera, Nairmen Mina, Rafael Garcia, R. Thomas Chamberlain, Richard T. Lareau

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Proceedings Volume 5403, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense III; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542851
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Non nitrogen containing, organic peroxides explosives Triacetone triperoxide and diacetone diperoxide have been prepared in the laboratory in order to study various aspects of their synthesis and their experimental and theoretical spectroscopic characteristics. By using different proportions of acetone/hydrogen peroxide (Ac/H₂O₂), sulfuric, hydrochloric and methanosulfuric acids as catalyzers, it was possible to obtain both compounds in a rapid and simple form. Raman, IR spectroscopy, and GC-MS were used in order to determine the precursors, intermediates and final analytes. Experiments and theoretical studies using density functional theory (DFT) have been used in the elucidation step of the mechanism of the synthesis of the so called "transparent" explosives. The B3LYP functional with the 6-31G** basis set was used to carry out the electronic structure calculation of the intermediates and internal rotations and vibrations of TATP. Raman spectra of solid TATP and FTIR spectra of gas TATP, were recorded in order to assign the experimental spectra. Although full agreement with experiment was not obtained, spectral features of the main TATP bands were assigned.

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Leonardo C. Pacheco-Londono, Alvaro J. Pena, Oliva M. Primera-Pedrozo, Samuel P. Hernandez-Rivera, Nairmen Mina, Rafael Garcia, R. Thomas Chamberlain, and Richard T. Lareau "An experimental and theoretical study of the synthesis and vibrational spectroscopy of triacetone triperoxide (TATP)", Proc. SPIE 5403, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense III, (15 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.542851

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