Nitration groups

Nitration of cellulose may result in the addition of from one to three nitrate groups per glucose anhydride unit. The following compounds and their nitrogen content have been postulated ... 

The nitrate group is stable to the dilute alkaline conditions required for saponification of secondary acetates although it is cleaved during Wolff-Kishner reduction.Nitrates are stable to chromic acid oxidation in acetic acid, to organic peracids, and to lead tetraacetate.This group is readily split by reduction with zinc in acetic acid. 

The nitrate group, like the nitrite group, is a versatile ligand and numerous modes of coordination have been found in nitrato complexes. ° The uncoordinated N03 ion (isoelectronic with BF3, B03 , C03 , etc.) is planar with N-O near 122 pm this value... 

Mn(N03)4] , [Fe(N03)4] and [Sn(N03)4], which feature dodecahedral coordination about the metal [Ce(N03)5] in which the 5 bidentate nitrate groups define a trigonal bipyramid leading to tenfold coordination of cerium (Fig. 11.17b) [Ce(N03)6] and [Th(N03)6] , which feature nearly regular icosahedral (p. 141) coordination of the metal by 12 O atoms and many lanthanide and uranyl [U02] complexes. It seems, therefore, that the size of the metal centre is not necessarily a dominant factor. 

Figure 11.16 Coordination geometries of the nitrate group showing typical values for the interatomic distances and angles. Further structural details are in ref. 150.

Figure 11.19 Schematic diagram of the centrosymmetric dimer in [Cii2(NO ).i(py) lpy showing the two bridging nitrato groups each coordinated to the 2 Cii atoms by a single O atom the dimer also has an unsymmetrical bidentate nitrate group on each Cu.

The [N40(,] cation comprises a central planar nitrate group (N-O 123 pm) surrounded by 3 NO groups at distances which vary from 241 to 278 pm (Fig. 11.20) the interatomic distance in the NO groups is very short (90 99 pm) implying NO and the distances of these to the central NO3 group arc slightly less than the sum of the van der Waals radii for N and O. 

Another way of replacing chloride trans to phosphine involves using silver salts reaction with AgPF6 and AgN03 introduces, respectively, a water molecule (XII) and a nitrate group (IX), which may in turn be replaced by a range of Lewis bases, giving (VIII), (X) and (XXV). 

Toxicity, Similar to NG Uses. This substance, as well as other aliphatic compds such as nitroisobutylglycol dinitrate, comprising a branched chain hydrocarbon to which one nitro and two nitrate groups are attached, has been proposed by Bergeim (Ref... 

For example, NS of 13.5% N contains, on the average, about 2.75 nitrate groups and about 0.25 OH group per saccharide unit and consequently consists primarily of a mixt of di- and tri- nitrates... 

A method of analysis based on converting nitrate groups to ammonia with Devarda s alloy is described by Smeenk (Ref 103). PETN is dissolved in ethanol and the ammonia formed is titrated with standard acid soln... 

The above comments were directed against atactic PVN, in which the nitrate groups are randomly oriented about the backbone of the... 

When o-Nitroaniline is treated by sodium nitrite in acid medium and then by an inorganic sulphide, it forms an explosive diazonium sulphide. Note that even though the presence of a nitrated group does not help, it certainly is not a factor that is vital to cause the explosion, since this is a property that is common to all these diazonium salts whatever the nature of the substitution on the ring. The situation is exactly the same with p-nitroaniline. 

Nitration of the surface of polypyrrole and the subsequent reduction of the nitrate groups has been reported [244] and Bidan et al. [306, 307] have investigated the electrochemistry of a number of polymers based on pyrroles with /V-substituents which are themselves electrochemically active. Polypyrrole has also been successfully deposited onto polymeric films of ruthenium complexes [387], and has been used as an electrode for the deposition and stripping of mercury [388], As with most conducting polymers, several papers have also appeared on the use of polypyrrole in battery systems (e.g. [327, 389] and Ref. therein). 

Bi-0 2.54(l)-2.68(2) A], In contrast, the nine-coordinate capped square antiprism geometry for bismuth in [Bi(N03)3(H20)3] (18-crown-6) does not involve the expected multidentate ether coordination to bismuth, but rather a hydrogen-bonded interaction of the crown ether with the hydrated bismuth center chelated by bidentate nitrate groups [Bi-0 2.38(2)—2.56(2) A] 32, implying that the hexado-... 

Substitution at the 2-position of the pyridine ring in PyO introduces steric hindrance to coordination as is evident from the formation of Heptakis-2-MePyO complexes with lanthanide perchlorates (167) and pentakis-2-MePyO complexes with the corresponding bromides (168), iodides (162) and chlorides (169). The lanthanide nitrate complexes prepared by Ramakrishnan and Soundararajan (170) have the formula Ln(2-MePy0)3(N03)3 -xH20in which all the nitrate groups are bidentate. 

Complexes of lanthanide chlorides 156,173), bromides (256), and iodides 174) with 2,6-DMePyO have also been prepared and characterized. The presence of bridging 2,6- DMePyO molecules has been suggested in the complexes of lanthanide iodides. Vicentini and De Oliveira (2 73) have reported tetrakis-2,6-DMePyO complexes with lanthanide nitrates. However, by changing the method of synthesis, tris-2,6-DMePyO complexes with the lanthanide nitrates could be prepared in this laboratory (252). All the nitrate groups in the tris-2,6-DMePyO complexes are bidentate. In the 2,4,6-TMePyO complexes (252) also the nitrate groups are coordinated to the lanthanide ion in a bidentate fashion. 

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