Help me research NITROBENZENE

chiwawa626

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Help me research this chemical for chem honors, "NITROBENZENE"

I looked and looked, but i cant find any real info, down and dirty about what it is for and what it is. All i know is the chemical formula and its used to make anline?

please help!
 

kranky

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Oct 9, 1999
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putting "nitrobenzene aniline" into Google yielded 2,970 hits. I don't know enough about chemistry to pick out the good ones.
 

Gatsby

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Here some basic info. Both from ChemExper.com

Nitrobenzene

Anilene

It looks from teh chemical structure that its made from a simple reduction of the NO2 group. Should be a rather simple reaction.

Gatsby
 

jhu

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Oct 10, 1999
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what's even more fun is if you start out with toluene and triple nitrate it to get trinitrotoluene. or start out with phenol to get trinitrophenol
 

chiwawa626

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using it?
its toxic, studys show that rats who were exposed to nitrobenzene have a decrease in sperm count, and a decrease in testical size.....serious, look at one of those sites
 

amok

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Dude, I think he was referring to while you were preparing your compound ;).