Reactions and Applications
Dinitrogen pentoxide, for example as a solution in chloroform, has been used as a reagent to introduce the NO2 functionality. This nitration reaction is represented as follows:
- N2O5 + Ar–H → HNO3 + Ar–NO2
where Ar represents an arene moiety.
N2O5 is of interest for the preparation of explosives.
In the atmosphere, dinitrogen pentoxide is an important reservoir of the NOx species that are responsible for ozone depletion: its formation provides a null cycle with which NO and NO2 are temporarily held in an unreactive state.
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