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... > Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Hydrocarbons, Acyclic > Alkanes > Methane > Tetranitromethane
Organic Chemicals > Nitro Compounds > Nitroparaffins > Tetranitromethane
... > Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Hydrocarbons, Acyclic > Alkanes > Nitroparaffins > Tetranitromethane

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Tetranitromethane  

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Scope note

  • Corrosive oxidant, explosive; additive to diesel and rocket fuels; causes skin and lung irritation; proposed war gas. A useful reagent for studying the modification of specific amino acids, particularly tyrosine residues in proteins. Has also been used for studying carbanion formation and for detecting the presence of double bonds in organic compounds.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under METHANE 1975-90

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