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Nitro compound, the Glossary

In organic chemistry, nitro compounds are organic compounds that contain one or more nitro functional groups.^[1]

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Acetone

Acetone (2-propanone or dimethyl ketone) is an organic compound with the formula.

Aldehyde

In organic chemistry, an aldehyde is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure. Nitro compound and aldehyde are functional groups.

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Alkane

In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical trivial name that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon.

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Amine

In chemistry, amines are compounds and functional groups that contain a basic nitrogen atom with a lone pair. Nitro compound and amine are functional groups.

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Aniline

Aniline (and -ine indicating a derived substance) is an organic compound with the formula.

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Annonaceae

The Annonaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family.

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Aristolochiaceae

The Aristolochiaceae are a family, the birthwort family, of flowering plants with seven genera and about 400 known species belonging to the order Piperales.

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Aristolochic acids are a family of carcinogenic, mutagenic, and nephrotoxic phytochemicals commonly found in the flowering plant family Aristolochiaceae (birthworts). Nitro compound and Aristolochic acid are nitro compounds.

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Aromatic amine

In organic chemistry, an aromatic amine is an organic compound consisting of an aromatic ring attached to an amine.

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Baeyer–Drewsen indigo synthesis

The Baeyer–Drewsen indigo synthesis (1882) is an organic reaction in which indigo is prepared from 2-nitrobenzaldehyde and acetone The reaction was developed by von Baeyer and in 1880 to produce the first synthetic indigo at laboratory scale.

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Baeyer–Emmerling indole synthesis

Baeyer–Emmerling indole synthesis is a method for synthesizing indole from a (substituted) ortho-nitrocinnamic acid and iron powder in strongly basic solution.

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Bartoli indole synthesis

The Bartoli indole synthesis (also called the Bartoli reaction) is the chemical reaction of ortho-substituted nitroarenes and nitrosoarenes with vinyl Grignard reagents to form substituted indoles.

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Beta-Nitropropionic acid

β-Nitropropionic acid (3-nitropropanoic acid, BPA, 3-NPA) is a mycotoxin, a potent mitochondrial inhibitor, which is toxic to humans. Nitro compound and Beta-Nitropropionic acid are nitro compounds.

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Carbanion

In organic chemistry, a carbanion is an anion in which carbon is negatively charged.

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Carbon–hydrogen bond

In chemistry, the carbon-hydrogen bond (bond) is a chemical bond between carbon and hydrogen atoms that can be found in many organic compounds.

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Carbonyl group

For organic chemistry, a carbonyl group is a functional group with the formula, composed of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom, and it is divalent at the C atom. Nitro compound and carbonyl group are functional groups.

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Carboxylic acid

In organic chemistry, a carboxylic acid is an organic acid that contains a carboxyl group attached to an R-group. Nitro compound and carboxylic acid are functional groups.

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Chloramphenicol

Chloramphenicol is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.

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Chloroacetic acid

Chloroacetic acid, industrially known as monochloroacetic acid (MCA), is the organochlorine compound with the formula.

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A contact explosive is a chemical substance that explodes violently when it is exposed to a relatively small amount of energy (e.g. friction, pressure, sound, light).

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Decarboxylation

Decarboxylation is a chemical reaction that removes a carboxyl group and releases carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Dimethyl sulfoxide

Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is an organosulfur compound with the formula (CH3)2.

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Drug discovery

In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered.

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Edmund ter Meer

Edmund ter Meer (31 July 1852 – 5 November 1931) was a German chemist who discovered the ter Meer reaction and founded in 1877 the ter Meer dye company in Uerdingen.

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Electron-withdrawing group

An electron-withdrawing group (EWG) is a group or atom that has the ability to draw electron density toward itself and away from other adjacent atoms.

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Electrophilic aromatic substitution

Electrophilic aromatic substitution (SEAr) is an organic reaction in which an atom that is attached to an aromatic system (usually hydrogen) is replaced by an electrophile.

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Enolate

In organic chemistry, enolates are organic anions derived from the deprotonation of carbonyl compounds.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.

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Ethyl nitrate

Ethyl nitrate is the ethyl ester of nitric acid and has the chemical formula.

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Explosophore

Explosophores are functional groups in organic chemistry that give organic compounds explosive properties.

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Flavin group

Flavins (from Latin flavus, "yellow") refers generally to the class of organic compounds containing the tricyclic heterocycle isoalloxazine or its isomer alloxazine, and derivatives thereof.

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Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde (systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula and structure, more precisely.

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Functional group

In organic chemistry, a functional group is a substituent or moiety in a molecule that causes the molecule's characteristic chemical reactions. Nitro compound and functional group are functional groups.

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Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Genotoxicity

Genotoxicity is the property of chemical agents that damage the genetic information within a cell causing mutations, which may lead to cancer.

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Glucose oxidase

The glucose oxidase enzyme (GOx or GOD) also known as notatin (EC number 1.1.3.4) is an oxidoreductase that catalyses the oxidation of glucose to hydrogen peroxide and D-glucono-δ-lactone.

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Grignard reagent

Grignard reagents or Grignard compounds are chemical compounds with the general formula, where X is a halogen and R is an organic group, normally an alkyl or aryl.

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Haloalkane

The haloalkanes (also known as halogenoalkanes or alkyl halides) are alkanes containing one or more halogen substituents. Nitro compound and haloalkane are functional groups.

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Halocarbon

Halocarbon compounds are chemical compounds in which one or more carbon atoms are linked by covalent bonds with one or more halogen atoms (fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine –) resulting in the formation of organofluorine compounds, organochlorine compounds, organobromine compounds, and organoiodine compounds.

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Henry reaction

The Henry reaction is a classic carbon–carbon bond formation reaction in organic chemistry.

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Hydrogenation

Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen (H2) and another compound or element, usually in the presence of a catalyst such as nickel, palladium or platinum.

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Hydron (chemistry)

In chemistry, the hydron, informally called proton, is the cationic form of atomic hydrogen, represented with the symbol.

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Hydroxylamine

Hydroxylamine (also known as hydroxyammonia) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula. Nitro compound and Hydroxylamine are functional groups.

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Indigo dye

Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color.

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Indigofera

Indigofera is a large genus of over 750 species of flowering plants belonging to the pea family Fabaceae.

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Α,β-Unsaturated carbonyl compound

α,β-Unsaturated carbonyl compounds are organic compounds with the general structure (O. Nitro compound and Α,β-Unsaturated carbonyl compound are functional groups.

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Kinetic isotope effect

In physical organic chemistry, a kinetic isotope effect (KIE) is the change in the reaction rate of a chemical reaction when one of the atoms in the reactants is replaced by one of its isotopes.

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Lauraceae

Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant family that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives.

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Leimgruber–Batcho indole synthesis

The Leimgruber–Batcho indole synthesis is a series of organic reactions that produce indoles from o-nitrotoluenes 1.

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Liebigs Annalen

Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie (often cited as Liebigs Annalen) was one of the oldest and historically most important journals in the field of organic chemistry worldwide.

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Locant

In the nomenclature of organic chemistry, a locant is a term to indicate the position of a functional group or substituent within a molecule.

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Michael addition reaction

In organic chemistry, the Michael reaction or Michael 1,4 addition is a reaction between a Michael donor (an enolate or other nucleophile) and a Michael acceptor (usually an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl) to produce a Michael adduct by creating a carbon-carbon bond at the acceptor's β-carbon.

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Mutagen

In genetics, a mutagen is a physical or chemical agent that permanently changes genetic material, usually DNA, in an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level.

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Natural product

A natural product is a natural compound or substance produced by a living organism—that is, found in nature.

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Nef reaction

In organic chemistry, the Nef reaction is an organic reaction describing the acid hydrolysis of a salt of a primary or secondary nitroalkane to an aldehyde or a ketone and nitrous oxide.

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Nitration

In organic chemistry, nitration is a general class of chemical processes for the introduction of a nitro group into an organic compound.

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Nitric acid

Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.

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Nitrile

In organic chemistry, a nitrile is any organic compound that has a functional group. Nitro compound and nitrile are functional groups.

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Nitrite

The nitrite ion has the chemical formula.

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Nitroalkane oxidase

In enzymology, a nitroalkane oxidase is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction The 3 substrates of this enzyme are nitroalkane, H2O, and O2, whereas its 4 products are aldehyde, ketone, nitrite, and H2O2.

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Nitroalkene

A nitroalkene, or nitro olefin, is a functional group combining the functionality of its constituent parts, an alkene and nitro group, while displaying its own chemical properties through alkene activation, making the functional group useful in specialty reactions such as the Michael reaction or Diels-Alder additions. Nitro compound and nitroalkene are functional groups.

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Nitrobenzaldehyde

Nitrobenzaldehyde may refer to any of the three isomeric chemical compounds.

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Nitrobenzene

Nitrobenzene is an aromatic nitro compound and the simplest of the nitrobenzenes, with the chemical formula C6H5NO2.

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Nitroethane

Nitroethane is an organic compound having the chemical formula C2H5NO2.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin (NG) (alternative spelling of nitroglycerine), also known as trinitroglycerol (TNG), nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a dense, colorless or pale yellow, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating glycerol with white fuming nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the nitric acid ester.

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Nitromethane

Nitromethane, sometimes shortened to simply "nitro", is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Nitronate

A nitronate (IUPAC: azinate) in organic chemistry is an anion with the general structure, containing the functional group, where R can be hydrogen, halogen, organyl group or other groups. Nitro compound and nitronate are functional groups.

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Nitrone

In organic chemistry, a nitrone is a functional group consisting of an ''N''-oxide of an imine. Nitro compound and nitrone are functional groups.

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Nitronium ion

The nitronium ion,, is a cation. Nitro compound and nitronium ion are functional groups.

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Nitropentadecene

Nitropentadecene, or more precisely (E)-1-nitropentadec-1-ene, is a highly toxic unsaturated nitroalkene, the only aliphatic nitro compound known to be synthesized by insects.

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Nitrophenol

Nitrophenols are compounds of the formula HOC6H5−x(NO2)x.

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Nitroxyl

Nitroxyl (common name) or azanone (IUPAC name) is the chemical compound HNO.

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Nucleophilic aromatic substitution

A nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) is a substitution reaction in organic chemistry in which the nucleophile displaces a good leaving group, such as a halide, on an aromatic ring.

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Nucleophilic substitution

In chemistry, a nucleophilic substitution (SN) is a class of chemical reactions in which an electron-rich chemical species (known as a nucleophile) replaces a functional group within another electron-deficient molecule (known as the electrophile).

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Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.

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Organic compound

Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.

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Organic reaction

Organic reactions are chemical reactions involving organic compounds.

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Organic redox reaction

Organic reductions or organic oxidations or organic redox reactions are redox reactions that take place with organic compounds.

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Organic Syntheses

Organic Syntheses is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1921.

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Organosulfate

In organosulfur chemistry, organosulfates are a class of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the structure.

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Oxime

In organic chemistry, an oxime is an organic compound belonging to the imines, with the general formula, where R is an organic side-chain and R' may be hydrogen, forming an aldoxime, or another organic group, forming a ketoxime. Nitro compound and oxime are functional groups.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_compound

Also known as -NO2, Nitro Compounds, Nitro functional group, Nitro group, Nitro-, Nitroalkane, Nitroaromatic compound, Nitroparaffin, Nitroparaffins, Ter Meer reaction.

, Liebigs Annalen, Locant, Michael addition reaction, Mutagen, Natural product, Nef reaction, Nitration, Nitric acid, Nitrile, Nitrite, Nitroalkane oxidase, Nitroalkene, Nitrobenzaldehyde, Nitrobenzene, Nitroethane, Nitrogen, Nitroglycerin, Nitromethane, Nitronate, Nitrone, Nitronium ion, Nitropentadecene, Nitrophenol, Nitroxyl, Nucleophilic aromatic substitution, Nucleophilic substitution, Organic chemistry, Organic compound, Organic reaction, Organic redox reaction, Organic Syntheses, Organosulfate, Oxime, Palladium on carbon, Papaveraceae, Pheromone, Picric acid, Potassium hydroxide, Primary (chemistry), Propane, Protonation, Radical (chemistry), Reaction mechanism, Reduction of nitro compounds, Silver nitrite, Sodium nitrite, Standard atmosphere (unit), Styphnic acid, Sulfuric acid, Termite, Tick, TNT, Zincke nitration, 1-Nitropropane, 2-Nitropropane.

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