Studies on the Polymethylbenzenes. XII. The Nitration of Bromodurene, and the Structure of the “Dinitrodurylic Acid Bromide” of Willstätter and Kubli1, 2

LI Smith, D Tenenbaum

Index: Smith; Tenenbaum Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1935 , vol. 57, p. 1293,1295

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 5

Abstract

Some time ago, Willstatter and Kubli3 reported that the nitration of bromodurene (I) at 0'in the absence of sulfuric acid or any other solvent gave dinitrodurylic acid bromide (11). Their evidence for this consisted in the analysis and the fact that OA hydrolysis with alcoholic alkali, a very small yield of dinitrodurylic acid was obtained. In connection with some other work, we needed considerable amounts of dinitrodurylic acid, which is usually prepared ...