Nitro groups, aromatic rings

Aromatic nitro groups Aromatic rings N-oxides Alkyl hydrazines Alkyl aldehydes N-methyl derivatives Monoalkenes p-Haloethyl mustards N-Chloroamines Alkyl N-nitrosoamines Alkyl esters of either phosphoric or sulfonic adds Aromatic mono- and dialkylamino groups Aromatic azo groups (because of possible reduction to aromatic amines) Aromatic and aliphatic aziridinyl derivatives Aromatic and aliphatic substituted primary alkyl halides Aromatic amines (including their N-hydroxy derivatives and the derived esters Propriolactones and propriosultones Derivatives of urethane (carbamates) Aliphatic and aromatic epoxides... 

A nitro group attached to an aromatic ring may activate the ring. Owing to this the nitro-substituted aromatic ring can take part in reactions in which it usually remains more or less inactive. Nucleophilic reactions of nitro compounds should be mentioned here first. 

A byproduct from the reductive ring closure was often the corresponding 2-aminodiphenylamine, arising from direct reduction of the nitro group without ring formation. Competing nucleophilic aromatic substitution by this new aniline of a displaceable ortho substituents normally leads to byproduct for-... 

Neither Friedel-Crafts acylation nor alkylation reactions can be earned out on mtroben zene The presence of a strongly deactivating substituent such as a nitro group on an aromatic ring so depresses its reactivity that Friedel-Crafts reactions do not take place Nitrobenzene is so unreactive that it is sometimes used as a solvent m Friedel-Crafts reactions The practical limit for Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions is effectively a monohalobenzene An aromatic ring more deactivated than a mono halobenzene cannot be alkylated or acylated under Friedel-Crafts conditions... 

Reduction of aryl nitro compounds (Sec tion 22 9) The standard method for the preparation of an arylamine is by nitra tion of an aromatic ring followed by reduction of the nitro group Typical re ducing agents include iron or tin in hydro chloric acid or catalytic hydro genation... 

A nitro group behaves the same way m both reactions it attracts electrons Reaction is retarded when electrons flow from the aromatic ring to the attacking species (electrophilic aromatic substitution) Reaction is facilitated when electrons flow from the attacking species to the aromatic ring (nucleophilic aromatic substitution) By being aware of the connection between reactivity and substituent effects you will sharpen your appreciation of how chemical reactions occur... 

Substituted aromatics, eg, aLkylbenzenes, sometimes experience attack at the substituent position by NO/ (7). A cyclohexadienyl cation is formed it is unstable and the nitro group migrates on the ring to a carbon atom that is attached to a hydrogen. Loss of the proton results in a stable nitroaromatic. 

Much of the reactivity shown by the ring atoms and substituents of pyrimidine is akin to that of the corresponding parts of 1,3-dinitrobenzene and 3-nitropyridine. This arises from the quantitatively similar electron-withdrawing effects of doubly-bound ring nitrogen atoms and of nitro groups in reducing sharply the aromaticity of the cyclic system. 

A variety of ring syntheses have been devized which depend on carbanion addition to an activated double bond. The examples depicted in Scheme 74 illustrate the use of inter alia cyano and nitro groups which are subsequently eliminated. In appropriate instances the inclusion of additional eliminable groups ensures the formation of fully aromatized products. 

Nitration of benzofuroxans (Section VII, A) and decomposition of polynitrophenyl azides, provide generally satisfactory routes to nitrobenzofuroxans. The nitro groups render the ring susceptible to nucleophilic attack (see Section VII,B). 4,6-Dinitrobenzofuroxan, 5,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan, and nitrobenzodifuroxan (34) act as acceptors in change-transfer complex formation with aromatic hydrocarbons. Nitrobenzofuroxans have not been reduced to the... 

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