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It was shown experimentally that the nitrating agent in the O-nitration of pentaerythritol by HNO3-H2SO4-H2O nitrating mixtures is not the nitronium cation but evidently the free unionized nitric acid molecule.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 134–140, January, 1970.
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Eremenko, L.T., Parushkova, R.P., Poryadkova, M.A. et al. Nitration of pentaerythritol by HNO3-H2SO4-H2O system. Russ Chem Bull 19, 123–128 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00913936
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