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    The WolffensteinBöters reaction is an organic reaction converting benzene to picric acid by a mixture of aqueous nitric acid and mercury(II) nitrate...
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    organomercury intermediates. A related reaction forming phenols is the WolffensteinBöters reaction. The toxicity is useful in antiseptics such as thiomersal and...
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  • Wittig–Horner reaction Wohl degradation Wohl–Aue reaction Wohler synthesis Wohl–Ziegler reaction WolffensteinBöters reaction Wolff rearrangement Wolff–Kishner reduction...
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    Nitration (category Nitration reactions)
    isomers. Heating the reaction mixture is sufficient to hydrolyze the amide back to the nitrated aniline. In the WolffensteinBöters reaction, benzene reacts...
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  • peroxide. The Wolffenstein-Böters reaction, which he discovered in 1913, was an alternative production method for explosives. Wolffenstein studied in Leipzig...
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  • then be reverted (hydrolyzed). WolffensteinBöters reaction Zerong Wang (2009). Comprehensive Organic Name Reactions and Reagents. Hoboken, New Jersey:...
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