Electrochemical and thermodynamic properties of oxygenated nitrogen compounds and aromatics in nitromethane. Application to the energetic aspects of the nitration process via inner-sphere and/or outer-sphere electron-transfer mechanisms

Abstract

The electrochemical and thermodynamic behaviour of oxygenated nitrogen compounds and aromatics has been studied in nitromethane (under weak solvation conditions) in order to provide energetic and mechanistic information concerning aromatic nitration comparable to that from gas-phase studies.