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34.2: Phenylamine and azo compounds

Learning outcome 34.2.1

This statement covers the preparation of phenylamine starting with benzene. The statement is a good summary of the whole process, and you must read it and note it.

This method is used if you want to make an amine with the amino group attached directly to a benzene ring - for example, phenylamine.

This is covered on the page about making phenylamine.

The first part of the page is just a revision of the nitration of benzene. Make sure that you are confident about this, because an exam question is quite likely to include this as well as the reduction of the nitro group to an amino group.

Don't waste time on the equations for the reduction of the nitro group. In the unlikely event that you are asked, you could use:

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