Patent ID: 7083690

Claim:
A method of rendering an organic fuel hypergolic with hydrogen peroxide, comprising the steps of: providing a polar or non-polar organic fuel selected from the group consisting of kerosene, methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, octane, iso-octane, decane and mixtures thereof; and contacting said organic fuel with a hypergolicity-imparting catalyst, thereby forming a catalyst-fuel mixture, wherein said hypergolicity-imparting catalyst comprises a complex of an alkyl-substituted diamine or alkyl-substituted triamine with a metal salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid, wherein said metals are selected from the group consisting of manganese, cobalt, copper, silver, and combinations thereof and said metal salts of aliphatic carboxylic acids are selected from the group consisting of acetates, propionates, butyrates, and combinations thereof, wherein the catalyst-fuel mixture is hypergolic with rocket grade hydrogen peroxide.