19. Reactions of Aromatics: EAS and Beyond
Electron Withdrawing Groups
Problem 23.80
Textbook Question
Textbook Question(••) Indigo is a dye that was originally isolated from coal tar. In 1905, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer won a Nobel Prize for a method that allowed indigo to be isolated from plants [a green chemist ahead of his time.] If you nitrated indigo using the reaction learned in this chapter, at which carbon would you expect the nitro group to attach?
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