DPPA safety at scale?
Hi all. This question is for anyone that has personal experience with DPPA specifically. I have experience with all kinds of toxic and highly reactive chemicals, but I had always avoided using azides because I usually have to scale up to a kilo. But I'm told that this one is relatively safe to work with. Per a coworker "no thermal decomp below ~100C"?
Anyone have personal experience with it at the ~1kg scale? Concerns are runaway exotherm as well as hydrazoic acid generation. We have run a calorimetric and off-gassing test already, but this was a very small scale, and I'll be handling the stuff personally this time around.
Please don't tell me I should know how to research this if I'm going to be using it. I am going to spend all week on it, this is only in planning stages. I take most comments here with a grain of salt. I just figure this is a useful place to find someone that has personally handled it and may have some unique anecdotes that might not be found in the literature. Thanks!