Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Phenyl-2-nitropropene is a chemical compound with the chemical formula is C9H9NO2. It can be produced by the reaction of benzaldehyde and nitroethane in the presence of a basic catalyst. In this reaction the base deprotonates nitroethane to form a resonance stabilized anion. This anion nucleophilically adds to the aldehyde forming a beta nitro alcohol which is subsequently dehydrated to yield the nitroalkene. This reaction is known as a nitroaldol reaction.
