Rate Increase in Consecutive Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions of Trichlorotrinitrobenzene: The Synthesis of 1-(Alkylamino)-3,5-dichloro-2,4,6-trinitrobenzenes

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 5164-5168

  Wolff, J Jens ^a   Zietsch, Andreas ^a   Oeser, Thomas ^a   Bolocan, Ion ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b PETROLEUM GAS UNIVERSITY OF PLOIESTI   (Romania)

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EID: 0000490910     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo980374z     Document Type: Article

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