The reaction of acetone with nitrogen tetroxide

✍ Scribed by Laurence I. Peterson; Edgar C. Britton

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 209 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)99785-0

✦ Synopsis

Nitrogen tetroxide, a powerful oxidizing agent, reacts with nearly all classes of orgtic canpounds under a misty of conditions (1). Generally, little selectivity is observed in these reactions since nitric acid, nitrous acid or lower oxides of nitrogen are produced in the primary reactions and institute fu-ther indiscriminsnt oxidation.