Transfer nitration isolation

It has been mentioned ( 4.4.2) that nitronium tetraffuoroborate reaets with pyridine to give i-nitropyridinium tetraffuoroborate. This compound and several of its derivatives have been used to effect what is called the transfer nitration ofbenzeneandtoluene. i-Nitropyridinium tetraffuoroborate is only sparingly soluble in acetonitrile, but its homologues are quite soluble and ean be used without isolation from the solution in which they are prepared. i-Nitropyridinium tetra-fluoroborate did nitrate toluene in boiling aeetonitrile slowly, but not at 25 In eontrast, i-nitro-2-pieolinium tetraffuoroborate readily... 

In fact, nitration of pyridine in the absence of protic or Lewis acid catalysts occurs at nitrogen.1 The reagent has to be the rather unstable and moisture sensitive salt N02+ BF4 . This is commercially available, though expensive. The product is also not very stable but can be isolated as the tetrafluoroborate salt 11 as BI 4 is non nucleophilic. This compound 11 is itself a nitrating agent and can be used to nitrate benzenes (but obviously not pyridine) simply by mixing in acetonitrile. The products 12 have the usual substitution pattern for electrophilic substitution. Olah has called this process transfer nitration . 

Based on the general scenario provided above, the analytical method to determine transference or transport numbers has been devised and is carried out in an apparatus which can essentially be regarded as an improvement over the Hittorf apparatus. This consists of two vertical tubes connected together with a U-tube in the middle all three tubes are provided with stop-cocks at the bottom. The U-tube is also provided with stop-cocks at the top by closing these, the solutions in the cathode and anode limbs can be isolated. The silver anode is sealed in a glass tube as shown, and the cathode is a piece of freshly silvered silver foil. The apparatus is filled up with a standard solution of silver nitrate and a steady current of about 0.01 ampere is passed for 2-3 hours. In order to avoid the occurrence of too large a change in concentration it is necessary to pass the current only for a short duration. The... 

Silica, and to a lesser extent alumina, are the most common stationary phases used for the separation of low molecular mass organic compounds. Chemically bonded silica sorbents are used for the separation of polar organic compounds in the normal-phase and reversed-phase modes. Wide-pore, chemically bonded sorbents, are used for the separation of biopolymers [18,22]. Some separations require specially prepared stationary phases, such as silica gel impregnated with silver nitrate for the isolation of unsaturated compounds capable of forming charge transfer complexes with silver [23] (section 10.6.1), or silica and chemically bonded phases coated with cellulose tris(3,5-... 

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