Nitryl fluoride, addition alkenes

Nitryl chloride (NO2CI) also adds to alkenes, to give p-halo nitro compounds, but this is a free-radical process. The NO2 goes to the less-substituted carbon. Nitryl chloride also adds to triple bonds to give the expected l-nitro-2-chloro alkenes. The compound FNO2 can be added to alkenes by treatment with HF in HNOa or by addition of the alkene to a solution of nitronium tetrafluoroborate (NOJBF4, see 11-2) in 70% polyhydrogen fluoride-pyridine solution (see also 15-37). 

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