Nitric Acid → 7-Nitro-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[D]azepine

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1,2,4,5-Tetrahydro-3H-benzazepine (1 g) (See P. Ruggli et al., Helv. Chim. Acta, 18, 1388, [1935]) was added slowly dropwise to stirred fuming nitric acid (25 ml) at −10° C. Stirring was continued at −10° C. for 1 hour and the reaction mixture was then poured onto ice, the precipitate collected by filtration and dried to give the title compound as the nitrate salt, 1.4 g. This was suspended in water, cooled to 5° C. and neutralised with 5M sodium hydroxide. The precipitate was collected by filtration, recrystallised from water and dried, affording the title compound D1a as a white solid (0.6 g)

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