Mfa. Dove et al., VANADIUM(V) OXYTRINITRATE, VO(NO3)(3) - A POWERFUL REAGENT FOR THE NITRATION OF AROMATIC-COMPOUNDS AT ROOM-TEMPERATURE UNDER NONACIDIC CONDITIONS, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (10), 1998, pp. 1589-1590
Vanadium(v) oxytrinitrate is an easy to handle reagent which can be us
ed to nitrate a range of substituted aromatic compounds in dichloromet
hane at room temperature, leading to >99% yields of nitration products
in most cases.