Vione D, Maurino V, Minero C, Pelizzetti E
Dipartimento di Chimica Analitica, Università di Torino, Italy.
Chemosphere. 2001 Nov;45(6-7):893-902. doi: 10.1016/s0045-6535(01)00035-2.
Nitrophenols are formed in aqueous solution upon UV irradiation of phenol and nitrite. The formation of nitrophenols is enhanced by dissolved oxygen and inhibited by the addition of 2-propanol. The mechanism of phenol photonitration involves both .NO2 (or N2O4, reacting with phenol, and 4-nitrosophenol, which is oxidised to 4-nitrophenol. A reaction scheme is proposed based on experimental results.