I. Photochemical nitration of methoxybenzenes from charge??transfer complexes with tetranitromethane

S Sankararaman, JK Kochi

Index: Sankararaman, S.; Kochi, J. K. Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, 1986 , vol. 105, p. 278 - 285

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Abstract

Abstract The direct irradiation of the charge-transfer (CT) absorption band of the 1/1 electron donor-acceptor complexes of dimethoxybenzenes with tetranitromethane leads to aromatic nitration with a high quantum yield. The analogous methoxytoluenes under the same photochemical conditions are converted in equally high yields to products of aromatic trinitromethylation. This dichotomy with different methoxybenzenes (ArH) is discussed ...