Preference of the mesolytic cleavage over the nuclear substitution observed in the ozone-mediated nitration of bicumene with nitrogen dioxide. Implication to the electron transfer nature of the Kyodai-nitration of arenes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1996.647

Ozone-mediated reaction of bicumene with nitrogen dioxide in dichloromethane at low temperature results in almost complete mesolytic cleavage of the hydrocarbon, accompanied by little or no nuclear nitration, in accordance with operation of the electron transfer process involving the nitrogen trioxide as initial electrophile.