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posted by  cmazz18 on 11/21/2008 6:43:44 PM  |  status: Live  

orgo! please help!!

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A student needed to nitrate benzoic acid. Benzoic acid is a solid at standard conditions so the student dissolved the benzoic acid in benzene and then added the nitric acid/sulfuric acid reagent system. When the student subjected the isolated product to spectroscopic techniques to verify that (s)he had successfully nitrated the benzoic acid (s)he found that the product was not consistent with nitrobenzoic acid (neither ortho, meta nor para). The spectroscopic data was consistent with a nitrated product.
A) Draw the skeletal structure of the nitrated product.

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B) Since the student was not successful using benzene as the solvent, (s)he decided to try to nitrate benzoic acid using a different solvent. Select all of the solvents that would probably lead to major success.






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posted by Nicholas(MND) on 11/24/2008 5:46:40 AM  |  status: Live
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nitrobenzene and benzaldehyde are the solvents that will lead to success.

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