Ethyl hydrogen sulphate nitrate

On the other hand, Elliott and his co-workers 4 maintain that the evidence for the nitro- structure is unsatisfactory, and that the p-nitro-dimethylaniline produced with dimethylaniline is a secondary product obtained either by oxidation of the nitroso-compound or by direct nitration of the amine. The addition of ethyl hydrogen sulphate to a solution of nitrosulphonic acid in sulphuric acid does not yield nitro -ethane. Elliott suggests that the crystalline acid is essentially the nitroso- form, ON. O. SO 2. OH, but that in the molten condition and in sulphuric acid solution this form is in equilibrium with another of yO ... 

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