Ethers, aromatic, acylation nitration

Like other aromatic compounds, aromatic ethers can undergo substitution in the aromatic ring with electrophilic reagents, eg, nitration, halogenation, and sulfonation. They also undergo Eriedel-Crafts (qv) alkylation and acylation. 

Suspension polymerization was applied to prepare polynor-bomene aosslinked beads suitable for use as supports in organic synthesis. The monomers used included norbor-nene, norbom-2-ene-5-methanol, and aosslinking agents including bis(norbom-2-ene-5-methoxy)alkanes, di(norbom-2-ene-5-methyl)ether, and l,3-di(norbom-2-ene-5-methoxy) benzene. The initial resins, which were unsaturated, were subsequently modified using hydrogenation, hydrofluorination, chlorination, or bromination to yield saturated resins with varying properties. They were reported to be superior to more traditional styrene-divinylbenzene resins due to reduced interference in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions (e.g., Friedel-Crafts acylation and nitration). 

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