Silver nitrite is an inorganic compound with the formula AgNO2.[2]
Applications
Silver nitrite has many applications. Notable examples include:
- The production of aniline compounds.
- General oxidizing agent.
- Victor Meyer type nucleophilic substitution reactions with organobromides or organoiodides forming nitro compounds.[3]
- Nitroalkene synthesis with nitryl iodide generated in-situ from silver nitrite and elemental iodine.[4]
- 1,2,3-Benzothiadiazoles synthesis via skeletal editing (S,N-heteroarene ring transformation) of variously functionalized 2-halobenzothiazoles and benzothiazolinones[5]
Production
Silver nitrite is produced from the reaction between silver nitrate and an alkali nitrite, such as sodium nitrite.[3] Silver nitrite is much less soluble in water than silver nitrate, and a solution of silver nitrate will readily precipitate silver nitrite upon addition of sodium nitrite:
- AgNO3 (aq) + NaNO2 (s) → NaNO3 (aq) + AgNO2 (precipitate)
Alternatively, it can be produced by the reaction between silver sulfate and barium nitrite.
References
- ^ "Silver nitrite". pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ^ American elements
- ^ a b Kornblum, N.; Ungnade, H. E. (1958). "1-Nitroöctane (Octane, 1-nitro-)" (PDF). Organic Syntheses. 38: 75. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ^ Waldman, Steve; Monte, Aaron, Monte; Bracey, Ann & Nichols, David (1996). "One-pot Claisen rearrangement/O-methylation/alkene isomerization in the synthesis of ortho-methoxylated phenylisopropylamines". Tetrahedron Letters. 37 (44): 7889–7892. doi:10.1016/0040-4039(96)01807-2.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Nociarova, Jela; Purkait, Anisha; Gyepes, Robert; Hrobarik, Peter (2024). "Silver-Catalyzed Skeletal Editing of Benzothiazol-2(3H)-ones and 2-Halogen-Substituted Benzothiazoles as a Rapid Single-Step Approach to Benzo[1,2,3]Thiadiazoles". Organic Letters. 26: 619–624.