PVP-NM prepared from poly(4-vinylpyridine) and nitrating mixture (1 : 1 mixture of HNO3 and H2SO4) is a safe and effective nitrating agent for both activated and deactivated arenes under mild conditions. The polymer can be retrieved and reused without losing the efficacy.

Facile synthesis of a new series of 2,2′-bis(trifluoroacetyl) azoxybenzene derivatives and trifluoromethylated benzo[c]isoxazoline systems, along with trifluoroacetyl nitrosobenzene derivatives was achieved by solvent controlled photolysis of appropriate 2-nitrobenzyl alcohols. Corresponding photoactive 2-nitrobenzyl chromophore plays a distinct role in this photosynthetic process, while, quite unprecedented, pertinent fluoromethyl substitution leads to high value fluoromethylated products, whose direct access is not feasible by common synthetic protocols. The significance of fluorine and fluoroalkyl substitution and its prominent biological effects makes this new photochemical approach an important discovery in synthetic methodology. Plausible mechanistic pathways involved in the formation of the products during steady-state photolysis are further established by picosecond laser flash photolysis experiments.

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