The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to p-nitrotoluene. competitive attack of entering alkyl group to ortho and para positions

G Bartoli, M Bosco, G Pezzi

Index: Bartoli,G. et al. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1978 , vol. 43, p. 2932 - 2933

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Abstract

These results have led us to question the generally held belief2 that aromatic mononitro compounds undergo 1, 2 addition only in reactions with alkyl Grignard reagents. As preexistent literature data on 1, 2 addition were obtained mainly from reactions carried out on monocyclic aromatic systems, while our results were restricted to reactions of bicyclic systems, we were prompted to check the validity of our findings in the case of monocyclic ...