Acids dinitrogen pentoxide hydrolysis

The nitration of sensitive compounds with dinitrogen pentoxide has the advantage of avoiding the use of strong acids or aqueous conditions this has been exploited in the nitration of benzylidyne trichloride and benzoyl chloride, which reacted in carbon tetrachloride smoothly and without hydrolysis. 

Treatment of DPT (239) with dinitrogen pentoxide in pure nitric acid leads to the isolation of the nitrate ester (249), an unstable explosive which is highly sensitive to impact and readily undergoes hydrolysis. A low nitration temperature favours the formation of (249) and its presence during the nitrolysis of hexamine is clearly undesirable. The nitrolysis of DPT (239) with one equivalent of pure nitric acid in an excess of acetic anhydride yields 1-acetomethyl-3,5,7-trinitro-l,3,5,7-tetraazacyclooctane (251), a useful starting material for the synthesis of other explosives. ... 

Finally, the idea of the coupling between nucleophilic attack and proton transfer in the reactions just discussed provides an interpretive framework for another important atmospheric reaction, namely the hydrolysis of dinitrogen pentoxide N2O5, thought to play an important role in mid-latitude global ozone depletion. 28,29 Indeed a related mechanism was suggested in ref 5 for the low acidity condition hydrolysis. 

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