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Title: Reaction of dinitrogen pentoxide with fluoranthene

Journal Article · · J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00274a045· OSTI ID:5532926

The products and mechanisms of the reactions of dinitrogen pentoxide (N/sub 2/O/sub 5/) with fluoranthene (FL) in aprotic solvents have been investigated. The influence of solvent polarity and temperature and the effects of addition of HNO3 on the resulting nitrofluoranthene (NFL) isomer distributions have been studied. These data are compared with the NFL isomer distributions resulting from the reactions of FL with N/sub 2/O/sub 5/ and other nitrating agents in the gas and adsorbed phases. In the gas phase and in CCl4 solution at ambient temperature, 2-NFL is the only mononitro isomer formed from the reaction of FL with N/sub 2/O/sub 5/. However, in more polar solvents (CH/sub 3/CN and CH/sub 3/NO/sub 2/) and in CCl/sub 4/ at subambient temperature (-15/sup 0/C), as well as with FL in the adsorbed state, reaction with N/sub 2/O/sub 5/ produces only the 3-,8-,7-, and 1-NFL isomers. A homolytic mechanism for the formation of the 2-NFL isomer is postulated

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Riverside
DOE Contract Number:
AA03-76SF00034; AS03-79EV10048
OSTI ID:
5532926
Journal Information:
J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (United States), Vol. 108:14
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English