Abstract:
It has been discovered that when co-nitrating a mixture of trimethylolethane and diethylene glycol, a storage stable spent acid can be obtained if during the co-nitration an excess of from about 60 to about 100% by weight of nitric acid over that stoichiometrically required is employed.
Abstract:
A process for the production of nitroalkanes and nitroaromatics having from one to 19 carbon atoms by the thermal decomposition of an acyl nitrate having from one to 20 carbon atoms.