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Oxidative Nitration of Styrenes for the Recycling of Low-Concentrated Nitrogen Dioxide in Air
Dagmar Hofmann1, Cristina de Salas1, Markus R Heinrich2
1Department für Chemie und Pharmazie, Pharmazeutische Chemie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schuhstraße 19, 91052 Erlangen (Germany), Fax: (+49) 9131-85-22585 http://www.medchem.uni-erlangen.de/heinrichlab/
Abstract:
The oxidative nitration of styrenes in ethyl acetate represents a metal-free, environmentally friendly, and sustainable technique to recover even low concentrations of NO2 in air. Favorable features are that the product mixture comprising nitroalcohols, nitroketones, and nitro nitrates simplifies at lower concentrations of NO2 . Experiments in a miniplant-type 10 L wet scrubber demonstrated that the recycling technique is well applicable on larger scales at which initial NO2 concentrations of >10 000 ppm were reliably reduced to less than 40 ppm.
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