Nitric Acid → 2-Nitrotoluene

HRID 127859Notes

Reaction equation

[N+:1]([O-:4])(O)=[O:2].S(=O)(=O)(O)O.[C:10]1([CH3:16])[CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=[CH:12][CH:11]=1>>[N+:1]([C:11]1[CH:12]=[CH:13][CH:14]=[CH:15][C:10]=1[CH3:16])([O-:4])=[O:2]

Participants

Reactant 3

HCID 944Nitric Acid

HCID 1118Sulfuric Acid

HCID 1140Toluene

Product 1

HCID 69442-Nitrotoluene

Procedure

In a process for the manufacture of a nirotoluene compound by reacting toluene with an aqueous acid mixture comprising nitric acid and sulfuric acid under conditions sufficient to effect nitration thereof and form a nitrotoluene compound and a spent aqueous acid fraction and then recovering the nitrotoluene compound from the spent aqueous acid fraction, the improvement for refining the spent aqueous acid fraction which comprises the following steps:

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-55ed72821af44862a433360605758cad
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1981_03
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04257986

Reaction notes

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