When is your big day of chemistry planned for?
What sort of equipment do you have? Do you have the ability to distill or reflux?
Not sure what you mean by 'not good/spectacular enough' RDX and HMX are pretty spectacular IMHO......
If it is equally about the chemistry and exploring some new reactions I have included some ideas below.
Do you have a nitrite salt? If so you could try an azide synthesis. Start from hypochlorite to get hydrazine sulfate. Then make isopropyl nitrite.
Freebase your hydrazine and use this along with the isopropyl nitrite to get sodium or potassium azide. You could then make a series of different
azides and compare their properties.
Tetraamminecopper (II) chlorate is within reach with what you have.
If you can obtain mannose you could try nitromannite.
Diazodinitrophenol if you have sodium nitrite.
If you have/can obtain aminoguanidine bicarbonate you could have a day of tetrazoles.
Enjoy your day of chemistry and stay safe.
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