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Title: Decomposition of dipyridineiodine nitrate
Post by: chewietee on February 18, 2008, 06:01:00 PM

I just did a lab in school on interhalogens, and one of the discussion questions is to postulate on what the decomposition products would be for dipyridine nitrate   [(C5H5N)2I][NO3].  Any help on this question would be great, and also an explanation as to why these products are formed woould be awesome too!!!   Thanks!!!

Title: Re: Decomposition of dipyridineiodine nitrate
Post by: AWK on February 19, 2008, 02:40:30 AM

[(C5H5N)2I][NO3] ?

Pyridine is a weak base and rather not reactive. Only when heating to about 600 C you can expect nitration at position 3 of pyridine.
So you can expect: pyridine and products of thermal decomposition of HNO3