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Aromatic Substitution. 48. Boron Trifluoride Catalyzed Nitration of Aromatics with Silver Nitrate in Acetonitrile Solution
Olah, George A.,Fung, Alexander P.,Narang, Subhash C.,Olah, Judith A.
, p. 3533 - 3537 (1981)
Benzene, alkylbenzenes, halobenzenes, and anisole were nitrated with silver nitrate/boron trifluoride in acetonitrile solution.Correlation of competitive rates with ?- and ?-complex stabilities indicated that the transition state of highest energy lies relatively early on the reaction coordinate.Data indicate that nitrations occur via a polarized complex of the nitrating agent, with the catalyst undergoing nucleophilic displacement by the aromatic substrate.
Photochemical nitration by tetranitromethane. Part XXXIII. Adduct formation in the photochemical reactions of 1,2,4,5- and 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene
Butts, Craig P.,Eberson, Lennart,Fulton, Karen L.,Hartshorn, Michael P.,Robinson, Ward T.,Timmerman-Vaughan, David J.
, p. 991 - 1008 (2007/10/03)
The photolysis of the charge-transfer complex of tetranitromethane and 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene in dichloromethane or acetonitrile gives the epimeric 1,3,4,6-tetramethyl-3-nitro-6-trinitromethylcyclohexa-1,4-dienes 8 and 9, in addition to products of nuclear nitration 12 and side-chain modification 10, 11, and 13-18. Similar reactions of 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene gave trans-1,3,5,6-tetramethyl-6-nitro-3-trinitromethylcyclohexa-1,4-diene 30 and two isomeric 'double' adducts 31 and 32, in addition to products of nuclear nitration 27 and side-chain modification 26, 28 and 29. The eliminative rearrangements of adducts 8 and 30 to give re-aromatized products in acetonitrile or [2H3] acetonitrile and in [2H] chloroform are reported. The photolysis of the charge-transfer complexes of tetranitromethane with either 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene or 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene in 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-ol (HFP) gives a marked increase in the yields of ring-nitration products 12 or 27, respectively, reactions presumed to proceed via a nitrosation-oxidation sequence. Reaction of 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene with excess nitrogen dioxide in HFP also results in extensive ring nitration to give 12 and 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl-1,4-dinitrobenzene (25); the latter compound is seen as arising via the 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl-1,4-dinitrosobenzene (34). Similar reaction of 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene gives ring-nitration product 27 as the major product. X-Ray crystal structures are reported for 2,4,6-trimethyl-1-(2′,2′,2′-trinitroethyl)benzene (26) and trans-1,3,5,6-tetramethyl-6-nitro-3-trinitromethyl-cyclohexa-1,4-diene (30). Acta Chemica Scandinavica 1996.
Aromatic nitration with electrophilic N-nitropyridinium cations. Transitory charge-transfer complexes as key intermediates
Kim,Lee,Kochi
, p. 1756 - 1770 (2007/10/02)
Electrophilic aromatic nitration of various arenes (ArH) is shown to be critically dependent on labile charge-transfer complexes derived from N-nitropyridinium cations. The electrophiles XPyNO2+, with X = CN, CO2CH3, Cl, H, CH3, and OCH3, form a highly graded series of electron acceptors that produce divers [ArH,XPyNO2+] complexes, with charge-transfer excitation energies (hvCT) spanning a range of almost 50 kcal mol-1. The latter underlie an equally broad spectrum of aromatic substrate selectivities from the different nitrating agents (XPyNO2+), but they all yield an isomeric product distribution from toluene that is singularly insensitive to the X substituent. The strong correlation of the nitration rates with the HOMO-LUMO gap in the [ArH,XPyNO2+] complex is presented (Scheme III) in the context of a stepwise process in which the charge-transfer activation process is cleanly decoupled from the product-determining step-as earlier defined by Olah's requirement of several discrete intermediates. This charge-transfer formulation thus provides a readily visualized as well as a unifying mechanistic basis for the striking comparison of XPyNO2+ with other nitrating agents, including the coordinatively unsaturated nitronium cation (NO2+BF4-), despite their highly differentiated reactivities.
Regioselective Side-Chain Nitration of Polymethylbenzenes Directed by an Acyl Function and Its Application to the Synthesis of Polysubstituted Phthalic Acid Derivatives
Keumi, Takashi,Morita, Toshio,Teramoto, Koichi,Takahashi, Hisakazu,Yamamoto, Hiroshi,et al.
, p. 3439 - 3446 (2007/10/02)
Nitration of three types of tetramethylacetophenones and pentamethylacetophenone with fuming nitric acid in acetic anhydride was carried out.The product distributions were compared with those estimated from substituent effects.A variety of acylpentamethylbenzenes including pentamethylbenzoic acid were reacted with the nitrating system to give regioselectively 2-(nitromethyl)-3,4,5,6-tetramethylacylbenzenes.The selective nitrations of some benzoic acid derivatives followed by an alkaline treatment have been found to provide the N-hydroxyphthalimide derivatives, which a re readily converted to the phthalic anhydrides and the phthalazines.
Nitration of 2,3,4,6-Tetramethylphenol and 1,2,3,5-Tetramethylbenzene
Hartshorn, Michael P.,Readman, Jennifer M.,Robinson, Ward T.,Vaughan, John
, p. 587 - 603 (2007/10/02)
Nitration of 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene (2a) with fuming nitric acid gives the tetramethylnitrobenzene (22), products of side-chain modification (23)-(27), the rearranged 6,6-dimethylcyclohexenones (8), (28), (29) and (30), and 2,3,4,6-tetramethyl ketone
