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Offline thelabrat0

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Synthesis question
« on: March 25, 2013, 07:13:24 AM »
hi im struggling with the following question from my assignment

starting with Nitrobenzene describe how you would form p-Nitro Ethyl benzene

iv crawled the net and found nothing , any ideas

thanks  :) :) :) :) :) :)

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Re: Synthesis question
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2013, 07:17:16 AM »
hi im struggling with the following question from my assignment

starting with nitro benzene describe how you would from p-nitro ethyl benzene

iv crawled the net and found nothing , any ideas

thanks  :) :) :) :) :) :)

How could you make p-nitro ethylbenzene (from anything)?

Offline Sunil Simha

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Re: Synthesis question
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2013, 12:52:21 PM »
If you could remove that nitro group, insert an ethyl group and put it back then your problem would be solved

Think about it ;)

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