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Regioselectivity of the nitration of phenol by acetyl nitrate adsorbed on silica gel
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Tetrahedron. Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, v. 55, n. 22, n. 6733, n. 6738, 1999.
0040-4020
WOS:000080579600002
10.1016/S0040-4020(99)00320-8
Autor
Rodrigues, JAR
de Oliveira, AP
Moran, PJS
Custodio, R
Institución
Resumen
The reaction of phenol with acetyl nitrate in chloroform gives nitrophenol with an ortho/para ratio of 1.8. This ratio increase to 13.3 when the reaction was carried out with acetyl nitrate pre-adsorbed on dry silica gel. Silica may be acting as a template to bring phenol close to acetyl nitrate by hydrogen bonds forming a ternary complex, which undergoes a six-center rearrangement to o-nitrophenol. The formation of this ternary complex is evaluated by ab initio molecular orbital calculation, (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 55 22 6733 6738