Ozone reaction with dinitrogen tetroxide

Two routes are feasible for the industrial synthesis of dinitrogen pentoxide and both are economically dependent on the cost of electricity. The reaction of dinitrogen tetroxide with ozone (Equation 9.3) was initially reported by Guye and latter by Harris and co-workers. This was later exploited and developed into an industrially useful process by chemists at the Defence and Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) in the It is mainly due to the... 

Dinitrogen pentoxide (generated by mixing streams of dinitrogen tetroxide and ozonized oxygen) allowed to react countercurrently with 1-octanol, which is added dropwise at the top of a glass-spiraled reaction column, then quenched immediately with water -> octyl nitrate (Conversion 93%) added to hexamethyl-phosphoramide followed by Na-nitrite and ethyl malonate as nitrous acid scavenger, then stirred 1 hr. at 45° 1-nitrooctane (Y 95% conversion 41%). F. e. s. G. B. Bachman and N. W. Connon, J. Org. Chem. 34, 4121 (1969). 

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