Nitro acids

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Nitrolic acids are reaction products of primary nitroalkanes with nitrous acid:

Synthesis of a nitro acid

Contrast, are prepared by the reaction of secondary Nitoalkane with nitrous acid Pseudonitrole obtained.

properties

In the crystalline state nitro acids are colorless. Alkali salts are formed with alkali lye :

Sodium salt of a nitro acid

Due to the mesomerism possibilities, the alkali salts of the nitro acids are colored red.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Hauptmann : Organic Chemistry , 2nd revised edition, VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig 1985, ISBN 3-342-00280-8 , pp. 517-518.
  2. ↑ a b Hans-Dieter Jakubke, Ruth Karcher (coordinators): Lexikon der Chemie in three volumes, Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg, Volume 2, 1999, ISBN 3-8274-0380-4 , p. 382.