I’m going to start a new scientific project. This time I’m going to try to make Pentryl in small volymes. (Trinitro N Nitranilino Ethanol Nitrate).

Phenylethanolamine after nitration forms Pentryl. This is not to be confused with eutectic mixtures of P.E.T.N. and other high explosives. They are called pentryl also. Does anyone have any experience with it?

Some info about pentryl.
It's detonation velocity is 7300 M/sec.
It is 130% as powerful as T.N.T
Toxicity is listed as low?!
This explosive seems to be sensitive, but don’t have any data at this point.

I'm a bit confused by your chemical name, are you sure it is correct?

The N-Nitroaniline bit, does that mean there is a nitrogroup connected to the N of the aniline?

Vulture: The whole name seems to be “2, 4, 6- Trinitro-N-nitranilino Ethanol nitrate”
But in the book “Kitchen Improvised Plastic Explosives II” the name is
Trinitro N Nitranilino Ethanol Nitrate. Sorry about that.

(The name “2, 4, 6- Trinitro-N-nitranilino Ethanol nitrate” did I find here. Search the page by pressing Ctrl + F and search for Pentyl)

http://mihailru.freeservers.com/shopping_page.html

The correct name is: "2,4,6-trinitrophenyl-N-nitraminoethylnitrate"

"Nitranilino" is not a correct discription of a functional group.
So I was right, there's a NO2 connected to the N of the "aniline", that's why it's a nitramine.

EDIT: That molecule seems to suffer from ALOT of steric hindrance. Positive heat of formation too. So it seems it would be a sensitive and powerful primary?

Not primary, apparently. A sensitive HE though, surely. Three C-NO2's, an N-NO2 and an O-NO2!

vulture: Thanks for the info! Hmm. it seems to me I didn’t have the correct information about the explosive.
And Internet didn’t make me any clever at this point

Tell me some more about this explosive…

From COPAE:

Drop tests, using 2kg weight:

Pentryl...... 30 cm
Tetryl........ 27.5 cm
TNP.......... 42.5 cm
TNT.......... failed at 100 cm.

(0.02 gm samples.)

Slightly more friction sensitive than tetryl, much more than TNP and TNT. Explodes after 3 seconds at 235*C.

Minimum amount of lead azide to cause detonation:

Pentryl...... 0.025 gm
Tetryl........ 0.030 gm
TNP.......... 0.120 gm
TNT.......... 0.160 gm

(0.50 gm samples, weighed into #8 cases, weighed amount of primary put on top, then the whole lot was pressed using 3400 psi.)

Small Trauzl test expansions:

Pentryl...... 15.8 ml
Tetryl........ 13.8 ml
TNP.......... 12.4 ml
TNT.......... 12.2 ml

Lead block compression test:

Pentryl...... 18.5 mm
Tetryl........ 16.6 mm
TNP.......... 16.4 mm
TNT.......... 14.8 mm

(50 gm samples on a lead cylinder, 64 mm long, exploded by #8's.)

Clearly it's quite powerful. It can be made from 2-chloroethanol (ethene + HOCl) and aniline, and then nitrating the product with mixed acid.

Mr Cool: Thanks alot, this will be helpful.