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Highly efficient nitration of phenolic compounds by zirconyl nitrate

…, V Suresh, K Rajesh, SR Reddy, Y Venkateswarlu

Index: Selvam, J. Jon Paul; Suresh; Rajesh; Reddy, S. Ravinder; Venkateswarlu Tetrahedron Letters, 2006 , vol. 47, # 15 p. 2507 - 2509

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Abstract

Zirconyl nitrate was found to be an excellent reagent in the nitration of phenol and substituted phenols to give nitrated phenols. This procedure works efficiently on most of the examples at room temperature yielding nitro derivatives in fair to good yields with high regioselectivity.