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Nitro Compounds

Known as: Nitro Compounds [Chemical/Ingredient], nitro compound 
Compounds having the nitro group, -NO2, attached to carbon. When attached to nitrogen they are nitramines and attached to oxygen they are NITRATES.
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Review
2019
Review
2019
Reduction of Nitro Compounds Using 3d-Non-Noble Metal Catalysts.
The reduction of nitro compounds to the corresponding amines is one of the most utilized catalytic processes in the fine and bulk… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
The Catalytic Amination of Alcohols
In this Minireview, the synthesis of amines by the amination of alcohols, by means of the so‐called borrowing hydrogen… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Efficient and selective room-temperature gold-catalyzed reduction of nitro compounds with CO and H(2)O as the hydrogen source.
The selective reduction of nitro compounds to the corresponding amines is one of the most important transformations in synthetic… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
A different reaction pathway for the reduction of aromatic nitro compounds on gold catalysts.
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Chemoselective Hydrogenation of Nitro Compounds with Supported Gold Catalysts
The selective reduction of a nitro group when other reducible functions are present is a difficult process that often requires… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Investigation of correlation between impact sensitivities and nitro group charges in nitro compounds.
A new method of calculating the Mulliken net charges of the nitro group, Q(NO)()2, to assess impact sensitivities for nitro… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Synthetic applications of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition chemistry toward heterocycles and natural products
Nitrones (Jason N. Martin and Raymond C. F. Jones). Nitronates (Scott E. Denmark and Jeromy J. Cottell). Azomethine Ylides (L. M… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes for Highly Sensitive Optical Sensors
The first use of electrospun nanofibrous membranes as highly responsive fluorescence quenching-based optical sensors for metal… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Structure-activity relationship of mutagenic aromatic and heteroaromatic nitro compounds. Correlation with molecular orbital energies and hydrophobicity.
A review of the literature yielded data on over 200 aromatic and heteroaromatic nitro compounds tested for mutagenicity in the… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Nitric oxide activates guanylate cyclase and increases guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate levels in various tissue preparations.
Nitric oxide gas (NO) increased guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity in soluble and… 
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