Chin. J. Org. Chem. ›› 2006, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (08): 1111-1114. Previous Articles     Next Articles

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三氟甲磺酸盐催化甲苯硝化反应的研究

李小青,杜晓华*,徐振元*   

  1. (浙江工业大学催化加氢研究中心 绿色化学合成技术国家重点实验室培育基地 杭州 310014)
  • 收稿日期:2005-09-28 修回日期:2006-02-18 发布日期:2006-07-26
  • 通讯作者: 杜晓华*,徐振元*

Toluene Nitration Catalyzed by Metal Triflates

LI Xiao-Qing,DU Xiao-Hua*,XU Zhen-Yuan*   

  1. (State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Chemistry-Synthesis Technology, Catalytic Hydrogenation Re-search Center, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014)
  • Received:2005-09-28 Revised:2006-02-18 Published:2006-07-26
  • Contact: DU Xiao-Hua*,XU Zhen-Yuan*

In this paper, the metal triflates were employed as Lewis acid catalysts for nitration of toluene with 1 equiv. of nitric acid. Zr(OTf)4 and Sm(OTf)3 were found to be the most effective ones among the catalysts investigated, and the conversions of toluene were 77.1% and 67.4% respectively. The conversion of 100% could be reached with 98% nitric acid, while the conversion became 95.4% when toluene was used as solvent. The conversion of toluene was achieved to 89.9% with the isomer distributing of omp=44.6∶5.7∶49.7 when using Sm(OTf)3 loading on silica gel.

Key words: silica gel, supported catalyst, toluene nitration, metal triflate