摘要:
                                The nitration of tetraiodoethylene gave 1,1-diiododinitroethylene (1).  X-ray crystallography showed that one of the two nitro groups is perpendicular to the ethylene plane.  Simple amines (dimethylamine, propylamine, aniline) reacted with 1 to give 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene derivatives; diamines (o-phenylenediamine, ethylenediamine, 1,3-diaminopropane, 1,4-diaminobutane) gave the corresponding cyclic products, and a tetramine [(tetrakis(aminomethyl)methane] gave the analogous spiro derivative.  Ammonia gave only ammonium cyanodinitromethide, whereas phenol gave 1,1-dinitro-2,2,2-triphenoxyethane.  The reaction of 1 with potassium nitrite gave the dipotassium salt of tetranitroethane.  X-ray crystallography of the 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylenes showed twisted olefins, some with twist angles greater than any previously reported for twisted ethylenes, with concomitant bond-distance distortions.