
%0 Journal Article
%A Blackstock, DJ 
%A Fischer, A 
%A Richards, KE 
%A Wright, GJ 
%T Side chain nitration of polymethylbenzenes in nitric acid-acetic anhydride mixtures
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1973/04/01
%V 26
%N 4
%P 775-783
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9730775
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9730775 
%X Product distributions resulting from nitration of polymethylbenzenes in nitric acid-acetic anhydride mixtures have been determined by gas chromatography. Nitration of a methyl group occurs in all the substrates studied; such nitration occurs only at a methyl group para to the methyl most activated to ipso nitration. These results support the view that side chain nitration occurs through the diene intermediates which lead to ring acetoxylation. 
