Heterocyclic nitro compounds

1,2,4-Triazole, 3(5)-R-1,2,4-triazoles (R=CH₃, CL, Br, NO₂), and their N-trimethylsilyl derivatives were nitrated with nitronium salts. The products were N-nitro-1,2,4-triazoles, which split out the nitro group under the influence of acids and undergo rearrangement to 3-nitrotriazoles when they are heated in inert solvents. When R=NO₂, a dinitrotriazole is not formed, and the starting 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazole is recovered.See [1] for communication 21.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 550–554, April, 1979.     

Nitration of benzotriazole N-oxide

The nitration of benzotriazole N-oxide with dilute nitric acid gives the 7-nitro derivative, whereas nitration with a mixture of nitric and acetic acids gives isomers with nitro groups in the 5 and 7 positions in a ratio of 19.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1570–1572, November, 1976.