Supported Tetramethylamonium Nitrate/Silicasulfuric Acid as a Useful Reagent for Nitration Aromatic Compounds Under Solvent‐Free Conditions

A variety of aromatic compounds are nitrated to the parent nitro aromatic compounds under solvent‐free conditions using supported tetramethylammonium nitrate/silicasulfuric acid as a useful reagent. This methodology is useful for nitration of activated and deactivated aromatic rings.     

Microwave promoted rapid nitration of phenolic compounds with calcium nitrate

Highly accelerated and safe nitration of phenolic compounds has been found to be feasible with a mixture of calcium nitrate and acetic acid as an efficient nitration agent under brief microwave irradiation. This method is compatible with the green chemistry approach because calcium salts—the inorganic byproducts—can be useful agrochemicals rather than waste chemicals. Commercially available ¹⁵N-labeled calcium nitrate is convenient for the preparation of ¹⁵N-labeled compounds for metabolic studies and mass spectrometry. This safe nitration method can be included in laboratory experiments for high school and college students.     

The novel usage of thiourea nitrate in aryl nitration简

Thiourea nitrate （TN） was easily prepared from thiourea and nitric acid to explore its use as a new nitration reagent, Nitrations of various aromatic compounds utilizing TN in concentrated sulfuric acid were studied, TN could convert aromatic compounds to the corresponding nitrated derivatives with various abnormal yields under mild conditions. The results suggested that the reaction mechanism might be different from those of traditional nitration reagents.     

Mononitration of phenol derivatives by guanidinium nitrate and silica sulfuric acid under mild conditions

A mixture of guanidinium nitrate and silica sulfuric acid acts as mild and heterogeneous media for the efficient mono nitration of phenolic compounds in dichloromethane at room temperature.     

Urea nitrate and nitrourea: powerful and regioselective aromatic nitration agents

Urea nitrate (UN) and nitrourea (NU), easily prepared from urea and nitric acid, convert deactivated aromatic compounds to the corresponding nitrated derivatives with a high yield and a high regioselectivity under very mild conditions. The performance of the two reagents is quite similar indicating that NU is an intermediate in the UN nitration process.     

Aromatic nitration under neutral conditions using N-bromosuccinimide/silver(I) nitrate

The use of N-bromosuccinimide and silver nitrate as a convenient reagent system for the nitration of aromatic compounds under neutral and environmentally safer reaction conditions is described.     

Chemical selectivities disguised by mass diffusion. IV. Mixing-disguised nitrations of aromatic compounds with nitronium salts. 4th communication on the selectivity of chemical processes

The disguise of the intrinsic selectivity of competitive, consecutive reaction systems by the mixing process is demonstrated experimentally using the fast nitration of a number of aromatic compounds with nitronium salts in nitromethane. The measured product distributions were compared with the distributions predicted from our mixing-reaction model developed previously [2] [4]. This comparison enabled the relative intrinsic rate constants for the second nitration step of the aromatic compounds investigated to be determined.     

A new method for the mononitration of phenol derivatives by poly(4-vinylpyridinium nitrate) and silica sulfuric acid under mild conditions

This procedure works efficiently for high selective mono nitration of phenol and substituted phenol to corresponding nitro compounds in moderate to high yield using poly(4-vinylpyridinium nitrate) and silica sulfuric acid in dichloromethane at room temperature.     

Practical neutral aromatic nitration with nitrogen dioxide in the presence of heterogeneous catalysts under moderate oxygen pressure

A practical neutral aromatic nitration process using nitrogen dioxide in the presence of FeCl₃ · 6H₂O under 40–100 psig of oxygen was developed, and nitration of several aromatic compounds, including the deactivated nitrobenzene, was performed in a successful manner. The correlation of reaction rate with equivalents nitrogen dioxide, oxygen pressure, amount of catalyst and temperature was investigated through the nitration of benzene. Following the optimization of reaction conditions, the nitration of benzene was scaled up to 476 mol. Furthermore, inorganic solid catalysts with pore size over 5 Å and surface area over 100 m²/g were applied to newly developed neutral nitration.     

Selected Nitrocarbamates of Glycerine & Co. and the First Acetylene Derivative

A simple two step synthesis route for the preparation of several energetic multivalent nitrocarbamates of easily available alcohols is presented. The carbamates were obtained by the reaction of the alcohols and the reactive reagent chlorosulfonyl isocyanate (CSI) with subsequent aqueous work‐up. The nitration of the carbamates was performed with mixed acid (nitric and sulfuric acid). The thermal stabilities were explored by using differential scanning calorimetry and the energies of formation were calculated on the CBS‐4M level of theory, as well as several detonation and propulsion parameters for the application as energetic materials. All compounds were fully characterized and discussed in addition with single X‐ray diffraction.     

Ethylammonium nitrate (EAN)/Tf2O and EAN/TFAA: ionic liquid based systems for aromatic nitration

Acting as in situ sources of triflyl nitrate (TfONO(2)) and trifluoroacetyl nitrate (CF(3)COONO(2)), the EAN/Tf(2)O and EAN/TFAA systems, generated via metathesis in the readily available ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) ionic liquid as solvent, are powerful electrophilic nitrating reagents for a wide variety of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds. Comparative nitration experiments indicate that EAN/Tf(2)O is superior to EAN/TFAA for nitration of strongly deactivated systems. Both systems exhibit low substrate selectivity (K(T)/K(B) = 5-10) in between values reported for covalent nitrates and preformed nitronium salts.     

Triiodolead(II) complexes. structure and Raman spectra

The crystals of tetramethylammonium triiodolead(II) are hexagonal with = 9.7823(11) A, c = 7.9167(8) A and γ = 120.0, Z = 2, space group P6₃/m. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by least-squares techniques to a conventional R = 2.97% for the 312 independent reflections. The structure consists of chains of PbI₃ units running along the c axis. Each lead atom is octahedrally coordinated to six iodides with a Pb---I bond distance of 3.223 A. The tetramethylammonium cations sit in holes in the packing of the iodide ions. The cations are disordered.

The Raman spectra of salts of this species formed with several tetraalkylammonium cations are also reported and the bands tentatively assigned.     

Vitamin E chemistry. Nitration of non-alpha-tocopherols: products and mechanistic considerations

In contrast to the alpha-form permethylated at the aromatic ring, non-alpha-tocopherols possess free aromatic ring positions which enable them to act as potent scavengers of electrophiles in vivo and in vitro. In preparation of enzymatic studies involving peroxynitrite and other nitrating systems, the behavior of non-alpha-tocopherols under nitration conditions was studied. The nitration products of beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocopherol were identified, comprehensively analytically characterized, and their structure was supported by X-ray crystal structure analysis on truncated model compounds. Even under more drastic nitration conditions, no erosion of the stereochemistry at 2-C occurred. The nitrosation of gamma-tocopherol and delta-tocopherol was re-examined, showing the slow oxidation of the initial nitroso products to the corresponding nitro derivatives by air to be superimposed by a fast equilibrium with the tautomeric ortho-quinone monoxime, which only in the case of gamma-tocopherol released hydroxyl amine at elevated temperatures to afford the stable ortho-quinone. Mononitration of delta-tocopherol selectively proceeded at position 5. This selectivity can be explained by the theory of strain-induced bond localization (SIBL) to the quinoid nitration intermediates. Bisnitration was only insignificantly disfavored by the first nitro group, so that under normal nitration conditions offering an excess of nitrating species only the bisnitration product was found.     

Scavengers for peroxynitrite: inhibition of tyrosine nitration and oxidation with tryptamine derivatives, alpha-lipoic acid and synthetic compounds

The inhibitory effects of various endogenous and synthetic compounds on the nitration and oxidation of L-tyrosine by peroxynitrite were examined. Nitrating and oxidizing activities were monitored by the formation of 3-nitrotyrosine and dityrosine with a HPLC-UV-fluorescence detector system, respectively. Glutathione, serotonin and synthetic sulfur- and selenium-containing compounds inhibited both the nitration and oxidation reaction of L-tyrosine effectively. However, 5-methoxytryptamine, melatonin and alpha-lipoic acid only inhibited the nitration reaction, and enhanced the formation of an oxidation product. This is important evidence that there are different intermediates in the nitrating and oxidizing reactions of L-tyrosine by peroxynitrite. It was suggested that 5-methoxytryptamine, melatonin and alpha-lipoic acid reacted only with the nitrating intermediate of peroxynitrite and inhibited nitration of L-tyrosine. Actually, the DNA strand breakage, which is believed to be a typical reaction of hydroxyl radical-like species, caused by peroxynitrite was not effectively inhibited by 5-methoxytryptamine. 5-Methoxytryptamine, melatonin and alpha-lipoic acid were viewed as useful reagents for investigating the mechanisms of damage by peroxynitrite in vitro.     

Engineering Cytochrome P450BM3 Enzymes for Direct Nitration of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons

Applications of the peroxidase activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes in synthetic chemistry remain largely unexplored. We present herein a protein engineering strategy to increase cytochrome P450BM3 peroxidase activity for the direct nitration of aromatic compounds and terminal aryl-substituted olefins in the presence of a dual-functional small molecule (DFSM). Site-directed mutations of key active-site residues allowed the efficient regulation of steric effects to limit substrate access and, thus, a significant decrease in monooxygenation activity and increase in peroxidase activity. Nitration of several phenol and aniline compounds also yielded ortho- and para-nitration products with moderate-to-high total turnover numbers. Besides direct aromatic nitration by P450 variants using nitrite as a nitrating agent, we also demonstrated the use of the DFSM-facilitated P450 peroxidase system for the nitration of the vinyl group of styrene and its derivatives.     

Highly efficient nitration of phenolic compounds by zirconyl nitrate

Zirconyl nitrate was found to be an excellent reagent in the nitration of phenol and substituted phenols to give nitrated phenols. This procedure works efficiently on most of the examples at room temperature yielding nitro derivatives in fair to good yields with high regioselectivity.     

Acetyl nitrate nitrations in [bmpy][N(Tf)2] and [bmpy][OTf], and the recycling of ionic liquids

In this work we have examined the nitration by acetyl nitrate of a range of activated and deactivated aromatic substrates in two ionic liquids and compared the results to the same reaction in dichloromethane. Both ionic liquids are stable to the reaction conditions, and in both ionic liquids the yields of reaction are higher after unit time than the same reactions in dichloromethane, although the regioselectivity is little affected by solvent choice. This result gives further support to the suggestion that in the ionic liquid, acetyl nitrate dissociates to give the nitronium ion, and that this is the effective nitrating agent here. However, it is shown that [bmpy][N(Tf)(2)] is a better solvent for aromatic nitration than [bmpy][OTf]. This is due to the ease of formation of nitronium ion in the former ionic liquid, and is consistent with the fact that [bmpy][N(Tf)(2)] is a weaker hydrogen bond acceptor solvent than [bmpy][OTf]. Finally, a method by which [bmpy][N(Tf)(2)] may be recovered and reused for aromatic nitration has been demonstrated.     

Retention study of inorganic and organic selenium compounds on a silica-based reversed phase column with mixed ion-pairing reagents

Summary Separation of seven inorganic and organic selenium compounds, namely selenic acid [Se(VI)], selenous acid [Se(IV)], trimethylselenonium iodide (TMSe⁺), selenocystine (SeCys), selenomethionine (SeMet), selenoethionine (Seet), and selenocystamine (SeCM), has been performed on a LiChrosorb C 18 column by using mixed ion-pair reagents; 1-butanesulfonic acid and tetramethylammonium hydroxide. Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) was used as an element-specific detector. The retention behaviors of selenium compounds in terms of several chromatographic parameters, such as pH of the mobile phase, the concentrations of ion-pair reagents, and the content of organic modifier (methanol) were investigated. It was found that the separation of both inorganic and organic selenium compounds can be achieved within 12 min with a mobile phase of 10 mM 1-butanesulfonic acid −4 mM tetramethylammonium hydroxide −4 mM malonic acid −0.05% methanol adjusted to pH 4.5 at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min⁻¹. The results obtained in this study showed that the use of mixed ion-pair reagents is very useful to improve the separation of selenium compounds. The applicability of this technique for the speciation of selenium compounds in real samples was demonstrated by the determination of selenium compounds in a selenium nutritional supplement. The results were found to be in good agreement with those obtained by ion-exchange HPLC-ICP-MS.     

Analysis of nitrite and nitrate as 1-nitro-2,4,6-trimethoxybenzene derivatives by reversed-phase HPLC with UV-detection

Summary A reversed-phase HPLC method for the determination of nitrite and nitrate in aqueous solutions, biological buffers and human urine is described. The method is based on the conversion of nitrite and nitrate into their 1-nitro-2,4,6-trimethoxybenzene (NTBM) derivatives by using 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene and concentrated sulphuric acid. NTMB is extracted by benzene, the solvent evaporated, the residue reconstructed in methanol/water (3/4, v/v) and subsequently analyzed by reversed-phase HPLC and UV detection (360 nm). The specificity of the nitration reaction, good reproducibility (C.V. 6.2%) and high sensitivity (8.4 ng nitrite) show the applicability of this method to the quantitative analysis of nitrite and nitrate in several matrices including human urine.     

Reactivities of heterocyclic compounds during nitration

The mechanism of nitration of 2-nitro-, 3-nitro-, 1-methyl-, and 2-and 1-methyl-3-nitropyrroles in a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acids is similar to the mechanism of nitration of benzene. A 1-methyl group activates the investigated compounds only slightly.