Iron (III)-catalysed nitration of non-activated and moderately activated arenes with nitrogen dioxide–molecular oxygen under neutral conditions

H Suzuki, S Yonezawa, N Nonoyama…

Index: Suzuki, Hitomi; Yonezawa, Shuji; Nonoyama, Nobuaki; Mori, Tadashi Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1996 , # 19 p. 2385 - 2389

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Abstract

In the presence of molecular oxygen and a catalytic amount of tris (pentane-2, 4-dionato) iron (III), non-activated and moderately activated arenes, which include alkylbenzenes, halogenobenzenes, phenolic ethers, naphthalene and derivatives, can be nitrated with nitrogen dioxide at ice-bath temperature or below to give the corresponding nitro derivatives in fair to good yields. An electron-transfer mechanism has been proposed, where an ...