utility as explosive and propellant ingredients gas generants and in other ordnance applications application_number US 70220085 A description as previously stated the present invention involves a single step synthesis of polynitramino compounds in which a solution of n 2 o 5 in 100 nitric acid is utilized as the nitrolyzing media the n 2 o 5 solutions are generated by a recently developed electrochemical process harrar j e pearson r k j electrochem soc vol 130 no 1 pp 108 112 january 1983 a specified cyclic nitrosamine cyclic 1 3 dinitrosamine is reacted with a solution of n 2 o 5 in 100 nitric acid under controlled reaction conditions a cyclic 1 3 dinitramine is thus produced in a yield of from about 10 percent to about 95 percent the lower yields reflect the decomposition of some of the products such as the six membered compound 1 3 dinitro 1 3 diazacyclohexane due to decomposition under reaction conditions table i describes the starting materials and yields of the products produced from the reaction of cyclic 1 3 dinitrosamines with solutions of n 2 o 5 in 100 hno 3 table i______________________________________ per centprecursor product yield______________________________________1 3 dinitroso 1 3 dinitro 85 1 3 diazacyclopentane 1 3 diazacyclopentane1 3 dinitroso 1 3 dinitro 30 1 3 diazacyclohexane 1 3 diazacyclohexane2 4 8 10 tetranitroso 2 4 8 10 tetranitro 94 2 4 8 10 tetraazaundencane 2 4 8 10 tetraazaundecane.