Explain what happens when aniline reacts with a mixture of sulphuric acid and nitric acid?
Being a strong oxidising agent, HNO3 oxides aniline into tert oxidation product on treating it with conc. H2SO4 and HNO3. However, under controlled conditions, m-nitroaniline is formed along with some amount of p-nitroaniline. This is due to the reason that under strongly acidic conditions — NH, a group of aniline is converting into —NH3+(anilinium ion) which is m-directing, thus the major product is m-nitroaniline.
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Identify compound A to D:
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170.Suggest chemical reactions for the following conversions: Aniline to benzoic acid.