Nitryl iodide nitration with

The synthetic applications of this reagent to the synthesis of nitroalkenes have been known since the 1960s.60 Nitration of alkenes with nitryl iodide, generated in situ from iodine and silver nitrite, is convenient for the synthesis of P-nitrostyrenes with various functional groups.61 This method is applied to the synthesis of ortho-methoxylated phenylisopropylamines, which are potent serotonine agonists (Eq. 2.31).62... 

Nitration of acetylenes with nitryl iodide followed by elimination of HI gives nitroacetylenes, but nitroacetylenes are too thermally unstable to be useful for organic synthesis.77 Recently, nitro-trimethylsilyl-acetylenes are prepared as stable nitroacetylenes by the reaction of bis(trimethylsily)acetylene with nitronium tetrafluoroborate (Eq. 2.39).78... 

Treatment of an epoxide, namely methyl 2,3-anhydro-4,6-0-benzylidene-oi-D-allopyranoside (78, Scheme 21), with nitryl iodide using methanol as the solvent has been reported.123 Rather than the expected nitration, opening of the epoxide occurred to afford 30% of methyl 4,6-0-benzylidene-3-0-methyl-oi-D-glucopyranoside (79), 10% of methyl 4,6-0-benzylidene-2-0-methyl-a-D-altropyranoside (80), and a water-soluble material. The water-soluble material was later determined to be a mixture of the 2-0- (81) and 3-0-methyl (82) products, with the benzylidene acetal removed, a result consistent with a later study.124 Performing the reaction in the absence of the silver salt resulted solely in formation of the water-soluble product. The preponderance of the diequatorial product 81 is in violation of the Flirst-Plattner rule, which predicts more of the diaxial product. The authors explanation for the anti-Fiirst-Plattner addition is as follows. 

The use of iodine-containing pseudohalogens has been demonstrated to cause a variety of side reactions. Treatment of methyl 5-0-benzoyl-2,3-dideoxy-3-D-g/ycero-pent-2-enofuranoside (83, Scheme 22) with nitryl iodide afforded none of the desired addition product, but gave a quantitative yield of furfuryl benzoate (86). The same result was obtained by treating 83 with iodine nitrate, or with iodine alone.125 The rationale for this undesired result lies in the ability of iodine to act as a Lewis acid, polarizing the glycosidic bond, generating an oxacarbenium cation, which then decomposes to the stable aromatic 86. 

Nitration. Cyclic conjugated alkenes give nitroalkenes on reaction with nitryl iodide, which is prepared in situ from iodine and KNO, (18-crown-6). 

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