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Ananya Shree

Class 12th
Chemistry
2 years ago

Explain why (xvi)Although amino group is o, p-directing in aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions, aniline on nitration gives a substantial amount of m-nitroaniline

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Nitration takes place in an acidic environment. Aniline is protonated to yield anilinium ion in an acidic media (which is meta-directing).

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