Patent ID: 7745635

Claim:
A method for making energetic ionic salts comprising the reaction: where X is selected from the group consisting of bromine, chlorine, iodine and substituted sulfate —S(═O) 2 —R 1 where R 1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, trifluoromethyl (CF 3 ) and nitratato (ONO 2 − )—; and the M+ cation is selected from the group consisting of silver (Ag + ), potassium (K + ), sodium (Na + ), Strontium (Sr + ), cesium (Cs + ), ammonium (NH 4 + ) and substituted ammonium NRR′R″R′″+ (where R, R′, R″, R′″ can be equivalent or all different with some but not all pendant R groups being hydrogen atoms, while the other R, R′, R″, and R′″ are substituted alkyl chains from C 1 -C 20 and these substituted R groups are substituted straight, branched, cyclic, unsaturated or joined together as well as in chains containing nitrogen or oxygen, and wherein the E anion is selected from the group consisting of nitrate (NO 3 + ), perchlorate (ClO 4− ), dinitramide (N(NO 2 ) 2 + ), nitroformate (C(NO 2 ) 3 + ), nitrocyanamide N(NO 2 )(CN) − , dicyanamide (N(CN) 2 − ), 5-nitro-1,2,3,4-tetrazoloate, 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazolate, 3,5-dinitro-1,2,4-triazolate, 2,4,5-trinitro-1,3-imidazolate, bitetrazolate, bitetrazolylamide, perchlorylamide (N—ClO 3 −2 ), 2-oxo-5-nitro-1,2,3,4-tetrazolate and 1-oxo-3,5-dinitro-1,2,4-triazolate.