Ionization and separation as a strategy for significantly enhancing the thermal stability of an instable system: a case for hydroxylamine-based salts relative to that for pure hydroxylamine

ions or HA molecules makes decomposition more difficult as decomposition initiation varies from bimolecular to unimolecular reactions of HA, with a significant increase in the energy barrier. We have, therefore, proposed a strategy for the stabilization of unstable systems, such as neutral N-rich energetic compounds, by ionization and separation to strengthen these systems and change the decomposition mechanism by increasing the energy barriers of trigger steps such that these barriers become more difficult to overcome, respectively.