
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blackstock, DJ 
A1  - Fischer, A 
A1  - Richards, KE 
A1  - Wright, GJ 
T1  - Side chain nitration of polymethylbenzenes in nitric acid-acetic anhydride mixtures
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1973
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
SP  - 775
EP  - 783
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9730775 
N2  - Product distributions resulting from nitration of polymethylbenzenes in nitric acid-acetic anhydride mixtures have been determined by gas chromatography. Nitration of a methyl group occurs in all the substrates studied; such nitration occurs only at a methyl group para to the methyl most activated to ipso nitration. These results support the view that side chain nitration occurs through the diene intermediates which lead to ring acetoxylation. 
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