Nitric Acid → 1-Nitropyrene

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A solution was prepared by dissolving 101 g of pyrene in 800 ml of glacial acetic acid. While heating this solution at 50° C. in water bath with stirring, a mixed solution of 42 ml of nitric acid (D=1.4) and 50 ml of glacial acetic acid was slowly added thereto dropwise. At the end of 30 minutes, the reacted mixture was filtered with suction. The precipitate was washed with a small quantity of glacial acetic acid and then thoroughly washed with water to obtain 115 g of yellow crystals (melting point: 150° C.). By recrystallizing these crystals in glacial acetic acid, crystals having a melting point in the range of 153°~154° C. were obtained. The result of elemental analysis of this product was as shown in the following table:

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