Triflyl nitrate is easily generated from tetra-n-butylammonium nitrate in CH2Cl2 solution and serves as an effective nitrating agent for a wide range of unsaturated substrates to form nitro olefins.
G Sudhakar Reddy, E J Corey. A Useful Method for the Conversion of Olefins to Nitro Olefins. Organic letters. 2021 May 07;23(9):3399-3402
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