Question

What is aromatic nitration used for?

Answer 1

Answer:

Aromatic nitration is a class of industrially important reactions for the synthesis of chemical intermediates with direct relevance to dyes, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. The nitration reagent is a mixture of concentrated nitric and concentrated sulfuric acid (333). Obviously, a more benign route would be desirable.

Answer 2

Aromatic nitration has long been an important process in industrial chemistry for nitro-aromatic products are widely used as explosives, solvents, pharmaceuticals and intermediates in the manufacture of synthetic dyestuffs and other chemicals.