nitrous acid

It can react with a mixture of air and water to make nitrous acid.

It can be destroyed by reacting it with nitrous acid.

In more formal terms, they are alkyl esters of nitrous acid.

Nitrous acid is involved in the ozone budget of the lower atmosphere: the troposphere.

Nitrous acid is formed in the stomach from dietary sources of nitrites.

It is the ester of cyclohexanol and nitrous acid.

NO reacts readily with water to form nitrous acid:

It was originally prepared by the reaction of aqueous hydrazine with nitrous acid.

Free nitrous acid is unstable and decomposes rapidly.

Nitrite esters are formed from alcohol and nitrous acid.

Under both conditions nitrous acid effects deaminative cleavage of the chain.

The reaction process begins with diazotization of the amine by nitrous acid.

It can also be made by reducing nitrous acid with compounds such as iron(II) sulfate.

Nitrous acid is an chemical compound.

The nitrous acid is usually generated in situ from sodium nitrite.

Nitrous acid is used to destroy toxic and potentially explosive sodium azide.

The heterogeneous reaction of nitric oxide (NO) and water produces nitrous acid.

The presence of nitrous acid can cause transition mutations, by converting cytosine to uracil.

Treatment with nitrous acid give benzotriazole, a corrosion inhibitor.

Upon protonation, the unstable weak acid nitrous acid is produced.

Standard reduction potentials for reactions directly involving nitrous acid are shown in the table below:

Alkyl nitrites are prepared by the reaction of alcohols with nitrous acid:

Early in the reaction the cyclohexanol is converted to the ketone, releasing nitrous acid:

In aqueous solution, nitrous acid is a weak acid:

Nitrous acid is also highly volatile - in the gas phase it exists predominantly as a trans-planar molecule.