Substitution the nitro group

Tanaka et al. (2000) reported that N02 nitration of 1,8-dimethylnaphthalene leads to 2-nitro and 4-nitro products. For 2-nitro prodnct, the reaction proceeds as electrophilic substitution—the nitro group comes into the ipso position and then migrates to the position 2, thus giving the final product. For 4-nitro product, the process develops according to electron-transfer ronte. The spin density of 1,8-dimethylnaphthalene cation-radical is highest at position 4 (or, the same, at position 5). It is the para nitration that takes place in the experiment. 

Reaction of 4-chloro-3-nitrocoumarin 201 with a variety of nucleophiles (Scheme 39) produces a number of novel substituted coumarins 202 and 203 (83LA1901). Hard and borderline nucleophiles exclusively substitute chlorine in the 4-position to give 202, while soft nucleophiles substitute the nitro group in the 3-position (except for iodide) of 201 to yield 203. This result of the nucleophilic substitution of 201 is rationalized in terms of Peason s HSAB (hard and soft acids and bases) model. 

Ketones were unreactive in this interesting modification of the Wittig technique. In the photoreaction of 4-nitroanisole with n-hexylamine the methoxyl group is replaced while ethyl glycinate substitutes the nitro group the former being attributed to an SN2 Ar process and the latter to the participation of a radical-ion pair (ref. 171). 

The nitrochlorobenzenes are valuable dyestufTs intermediates. The presence of the nitro-groups makes the chlorine atom very reactive and easily replaceable. Treatment with ammonia or dilute alkalis substitutes an amino- or hydroxy-group for the chlorine atom and gives a series of nilroanilines and nilrophenols. 

It looks as though we can get B from A (which is used in frame 247) and so the nitro group is the obvious source of the amino group. It will also allow us to hydrolyse one ether specifically by nucleophilic aromatic substitution. 

Allylic nitro compounds form rr-allylpalladium complexes by displacement of the nitro group and react with nucleophiles, and allylation with the tertiary nitro compound 202 takes place at the more substituted side without rearrangement to give 203[8,9,128]. 

In the examples, a nitro group is substituted for a hydrogen atom, and water is a by-product. Nitro groups may, however, be substituted for other atoms or groups of atoms. In Victor Meyer reactions which use silver nitrite, the nitro group replaces a hahde atom, eg, I or Br. In a modification of this method, sodium nitrite dissolved in dimethyl formamide or other suitable solvent is used instead of silver nitrite (1). Nitro compounds can also be produced by addition reactions, eg, the reaction of nitric acid or nitrogen dioxide with unsaturated compounds such as olefins or acetylenes. 

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. 

FrielA,nderSynthesis. The methods cited thus far all suffer from the mixtures which usually result with meta-substituted anilines. The use of an ortho-disubstituted benzene for the subsequent constmction of the quinoline avoids the problem. In the FrieWider synthesis (52) a starting material like 2-aminoben2aldehyde reacts with an CX-methyleneketone ia the presence of base. The difficulty of preparing the required anilines is a limitation ia this approach, but 2-nitrocarbonyl compounds and the subsequent reduction of the nitro group present a usehil modification (53). 

Nitro-l-diazo-2-naphthol-4-sulfonic acid prefers the 2-position in spite of the nitro group, and increasing alkalinity favors ortho coupling with diazophenols. 1-Naphthalenesulfamic acid [24344-19-2] (ArNHSO H) and N-nitro-1-naphthylamine [4323-69-7] (ArNHNO ) couple exclusively in the para position. The substitution of resorcinol [108-46-3] and y -phenylenediamine [108-45-2] is compHcated and has been discussed (29,30). The first azo dyes from aniline, eg. Aniline Yellow [60-09-3] (19) (Cl Solvent Yellow 1 Cl 11000) were manufactured in 1861 and Bismark Brown [10114-58-6] (20) (Cl Basic Brown 1 Cl 21000) appeared in 1863. The reaction is as follows ... 

Use of a (Substituted) Aminopyridine Derivative in Which the Nitro Group is Already Present in the Pyridine Ring as Starting Material... 

A new general synthesis of 3-substituted derivatives has been reported (99MC13) (Scheme 9). Thus, the nitro group of furoxan 27 underwent a facile hydride replacement on treatment with NaBH4 in EtOH to give 3-monosubstituted furoxans 23. The result of this reaction is independent of the nature of R. 

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