Phosphorus pentachloride with nitro compounds

Starting with cuminal, nitro-cuminal was prepared, the nitro group entering the para position, meta to the aldehyde group. This compound - when treated with phosphorus pentachloride was converted into nitro-cymyline chloride, which on reduction with zinc and hydrochloric acid... 

An oxidant. Combusdble when exposed to heat and flame. Moderate explosion hazard when exposed to heat or flame. Explosive reacdon with solid or concentrated alkali + heat (e.g., sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide), aluminum chloride + phenol (at 120°C), aniline + glycerol + sulfuric acid, nitric + sulfuric acid + heat. Forms explosive mixmres with aluminum chloride, oxidants (e.g., fluorodinitromethane, uranium perchlorate, tetranitromethane, sodium chlorate, nitric acid, nitric acid + water, peroxodisulfuric acid, dinitrogen tetraoxide), phosphorus pentachloride, potassium, sulfuric acid. Reacts violendy with aniline + glycerin, N2O, AgC104. To fight fire, use water, foam, CO2, dry chemical. Incompadble with potassium hydroxide. When heated to decomposidon it emits toxic flames of NOx. See also NITRO COMPOUNDS OF AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS. 

Y = F) with sodiiun methoxide, but undergoes ring-opening with potassium hydroxide in t-butyl alcohol to give the acid o-C F4H-CF CF-C02H, whidi is converted into the dichloro-compound o-CsFaH-CFCl-CFCl-COaH by treatmmt with phosphorus pentachloride followed by hydrolysis. Both 3-chloroh tafluoro-and octafluoro-indene are converted into the oxo-sulphonic add (32) by 20% oleum, and the dibromide (33a) or the nitro-indane (33b) is formed when octa-fluoioindene reacts with bromine or HNOa-HF, respectively. The fomiation of the antiaromatic cabocation (34) when octafluoroindene dissolves in SbFs-SOa at -40°C has been briefly studied by n.m.r. spectroscopy. ... 

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