[rolnor]

OK. Yes, nitromethane has the same explosive force as TNT as I understand. I powered a moped with almost pure nitromethane, I got it from Nobel-industries where I worked in summertime in my teens. The engine sounded strange but it run OK. I think you need to adjust the ignition if you use nitro, it should have produced more power than it did.

[Enthalpy]

Polyisoprene to branched alkanes, update without carboxylic acids, and possibly less wrong.

• Ozonolysis, under conditions (RT?) that destroy the ozonides and produce aldehydes and ketones.
• Hydrogenation of the double bonds, under conditions that keep the aldehydes and ketones.
• Reduction of the aldehydes and ketones with zinc (Clemmensen or other, I don't know).

Variant:

• Ozonolysis to aldehydes and ketones.
• Hydrogenation of the double bonds, aldehydes and ketones.
• Dehydration of the alcohols.
• Hydrogenation of the new double bonds.

Better?

[...] I powered a moped with almost pure nitromethane [...]

[Enthalpy]

[...] I powered a moped with almost pure nitromethane [...]

Was it for the moped show?