Conclusions
The photolysis of solutions of C(NO2)4, IC(NO2)3 and CH(NO2)3 in tetrahydrofuran and tetrahydropyran at 20° leads to the formation of the correspondingα-trinitromethyl derivatives of cyclic ethers. Data were obtained in support of a radical nonchain reaction mechanism.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1149–1151, May, 1973.
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Leenson, I.A., Sergeev, G.B., Shitov, O.P. et al. Radical reaction of trinitromethane derivatives with cyclic ethers. Russ Chem Bull 22, 1108–1110 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00854263
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