Nitric Acid → HCID 178418805, compound

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Sulfuric acid (95-98%, 250 mL) is placed in a 1 L 4-neck round bottomed flask equipped with mechanical stirrer, thermometer and cooled to 0° C. 4-Phenylimidazole (87.2 g, 0.606 mol) is added in portions to keep the temperature under 10° C. The starting material is dissolved completely after stirring for 20 minutes. The mixture is cooled to 0° C., fuming nitric acid (28.42 mL, 0.606 mol) is added dropwise to keep the temperature at 0-5° C. The addition took about 1.5 h. After stirring at 0° C. for 1 h, the reaction mixture is poured into ice (3 Kg) and stirred for 20 minutes, neutralized with sodium hydroxide (340 g) and then sodium carbonate (10%) to pH˜10. The mixture is filtered; the solid is washed with water (3×500 mL), methanol (500 mL) and air-dried. The crude product is recrystallized with ethanol (20 mL/g) to give 50.5 g product as tan crystals. The mother liquor is concentrated and the residue is recrystallized with ethanol to give another crop of the product (11.2 g) with a total yield of 61.7 g (53.9%); mp 226-228° C.

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