Sodiumethanethiolate in methanol is an efficient reducing agent for gem-bromonitro compounds; treatment of the resultant nitronates with a protic acid or with N-chlorosucccinimide gives high yields of the corresponding nitro or gem-chloronitro compounds, respectively.
The title amines behave as nucleophiles towardtp-nitrobenzyl-chlorideor variously functionnalized gem-halo nitroalkanes In reationsresponding to the classical criteria for the SRN1 mechanism.