Chemical Properties
Orange Crystalline Solid
Uses
4-Nitrodiphenylamine was used to study reduction of nitrated diphenylamine derivatives in sediment water batch enrichments and dense cell suspensions of anaerobic, aromatic-compound-mineralizing pure bacterial cultures.
Synthesis Reference(s)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 42, p. 1786, 1977
DOI: 10.1021/jo00430a025
General Description
4-Nitrodiphenylamine undergoes heterogeneous catalytic transfer hydrogenation to form p-phenylenediamines. 4-Nitrodiphenylamine is used as stabilizer for propellants and explosives.
Purification Methods
Crystallise the amine from EtOH or aqueous EtOH (m 135-136o) and has m 131.5-132o after sublimation in vacuo. [Beilstein 12 H 715, 12 III 1586.]
