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Old 09-26-2003, 10:36 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Q: And then after that I said... You aren't listening to me ,are you, Tom? Oh, andJaneway's so sexy..Seven is actually a guy.Oh and by the way,In today's experiment we will carry out the nitration of an aromatic ring, an example of electrophilic aromatic substitution. There are a couple of unusual features to this experiment. (1) Under the reaction conditions employed, you will do a double nitration. That is, the product from the first nitration reacts a second time. (2) The are two aromatic rings in the substrate (2-benzylpyridine), a nitrogen-containing pyridine ring and a phenyl ring. Both types of aromatic rings can, in principle, undergo electrophilic aromatic substitution, but we find that one, the phenyl ring, reacts faster in this case. We call this type selectivity, where one type of functional group reacts faster than another, chemoselectivity. If you think about what should happen to the pyridine in acid, you should be able to reason why the phenyl reacts faster (i.e., chemoselectively) in this reaction.

A: No.No. No. No.[/colorost_uid0]
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