Creating cyclo-N${}_5$${}^{+}$ cation and assembling N${}_5$${}^{+}$N${}_5$${}^{-}$ salt via electronegativity co-matching in tailored ionic compounds

Bi Zhang, Yu Xin, Meiling Xu +4

The recent discovery of crystalline pentazolates marks a major advance in polynitrogen science and raises prospects of making the long-touted potent propellant N${}_5$${}^{+}$N${}_5$$^{-…