How Nitration Is Formed?
Nitration Happens When One (Or More) of the Hydrogen Atoms on the Benzene Ring Is Replaced by a Nitro Group, No2. Benzene Is Treated with a Mixture of...
Nitration happens when one (or more) of the hydrogen atoms on the benzene ring is replaced by a nitro group, NO2. Benzene is treated with a mixture of concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid at a temperature not exceeding 50°C. The mixture is held at this temperature for about half an hour.
What do you mean by mechanism of nitration?
Mechanism of Nitration. Substitution of a nitro group into the aromatic ring is nitration. It is an aromatic substitution reaction. It is an electrophilic substitution reaction. Substitution takes place involving an electrophile.
Why do we do nitration?
There are many major industrial applications of nitration in the strict sense; the most important by volume are for the production of nitroaromatic compounds such as nitrobenzene. Nitration reactions are notably used for the production of explosives, for example the conversion of toluene to TNT (2,4,6-trinitrotoluene).
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