Abstract High density energetic salts containing nitrogen rich cations and carbonyl-or oxalylbis (diamino-tetrazole) anions, which were obtained from cyanogen azide and hydrazine, were readily synthesized. In every case, a new family of energetic salts 3–14 were characterized by vibrational spectroscopy, multinuclear (1 H, 13 C, 15 N) NMR, elemental analyses, density, differential scanning calorimetry and impact sensitivity. ...