Aliphatic Nitration Reactions Investigated in Micro Reactors

3 Aliphatic Nitration Reactions Investigated in Micro Reactors 

The nitration of N,N -diethylurea gives nitrated products which are precursors for a new energetic plasticizer N,N -dialkyl-N,N -dinitrourea (DNDA). For macroscopic batch processing, this reaction is characterized by a lack of selectivity owing to mononitro derivative formation and thermal decomposition of the dinitro product due to increasing temperature during the course of reaction [37, 38]. 

By this reaction, the nitroso moiety is replaced by a nitro group, in addition to the nitration of the -NH-ethyl group [38]. 

Organic synthesis 51 [OS 51) Nitration of alkanes such as methane and hexane with 

These reactions also have high exothermicity so that safe and reliable processing in technical processes still demands high technical expenditure [37]. 

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