Nitroalkylation of aromatic hydrocarbons promoted by manganese (III) acetate

…, P Ngoviwatchai, T Tantrarant

Index: Kurz, Michael E.; Ngoviwatchai, Preecha; Tantrarant, Tosaporn Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1981 , vol. 46, # 23 p. 4668 - 4672

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Abstract

Additional mechanistic and synthetic details concerning the formation of nitroalkylated aromatic products from the reaction of nitroalkanes with manganese (II1) acetate and an aromatic compound are presented. A large isotope effect (kH/kD= 4.02-4.20) was found for both manganese (II1)-and cerium (IV)-promoted nitromethylations with nitromethane-d3 while no isotope effect (k~/k~= 1.05) was observed with benzene-d6. This indicated that ...