Influence of radical center on oxidative properties of nitron group in reaction of nitroxyl radicals of 3-imidazoline 3-oxide withhydrazine

Abstract

1. The influence of the radical center on the reactivity of the functional group in derivatives of 3-imidazoline 3-oxide not bound directly to it has been discovered. 2. In the reaction of nitroxyl radicals of a series of 3-imidazoline 3-oxides with hydrazine, two parallel processes take place: Reduction of the radical center to a hydroxylamino group and reduction of the nitron group to an amino group. 3. The desoxygenation process of the nitron group by hydrazine in alcohol at 20°C proceeds in the case of paramagnetic derivatives of 3-imidazoline 3-oxide only.