Paulo
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Again the benzene nitration products :)
When studying the benzene nitration products, an idea cross my mind.
If I purify the mixed acid (nitric acid + sulphuric acid) with urea, will the benzene by-products decrease? Apparently the urea should react with the
nitrous acid and maybe this will reduce the oxidation of benzene into phenol. This way I should be able to produce less nitrophenols, namely di- and
tri-nitrophenols.
I don’t have any other information on this, so please any suggestion would be appreciated.
Please remember that I use temperatures between 80 and 100 ºC, will this be any problem? What amount of urea should be used? Will be dangerous if I
use too much?
My mixed acid uses the following composition:
400 ml Sulphuric acid at 68% (wt)
50 ml nitric acid at 60% (wt)
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Paulo
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KABOOOM(pyrojustforfun)
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urea works in "sulfuric free" nitric acid. with sulfuric acid present you get nitrous oxide (but if kept under 5°C nitro/dininitrourea
forms)
which acid do you think is responsible for oxidation?
edit: just found I had written acid instead of oxide
[Edited on 8-10-2003 by KABOOOM(pyrojustforfun)]
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Paulo
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Sulphuric acid is present because is the catalyst of the main nitration reaction.
I think that the nitric acid undissociated or the nitrous acid formed is the oxidiser of the benzene into phenol. If I can remove the nitrous acid
formed from the mixed acid, maybe I can decrease the nitrophenols (NP’s) formed, because maybe the mechanism of formation of this NP’s passes
through the nitrous acid present, and if I can removed it by the introduction of urea, maybe I can decrease the NP’s formed.
However I must use temperatures near the 90 ºC and acid concentrations as referred.
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Paulo
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KABOOOM(pyrojustforfun)
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it can't be nitrous acid . HNO3 is a quite stronger oxidiser than HNO2.
anyway why didn't you post it under the previous thread?
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Marvin
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Nitrous acid, and the products its associated with, like nitrogen dioxide are frequently the cause of nitrating mixtures going oxidising. More
usually though with ester formation from alcohols.
A furthur cause tends to be when the nitric acid concentration in the nitrating mixture drops to a low value. If this turns out to be part of the
problem using excess nitric acid industrially would probably not be economical.
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Nitration in DCM significantly reduces, sometimes totally inhibits, the formation of byproducts according to the patent.
I guess the reason why, in my experience, is that NOx does not dissolve in DCM.
[Edited on 9-10-2003 by vulture]
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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