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nitro group, in chemistry, functional group functional group, in organic chemistry, group of atoms within a molecule that is responsible for certain properties of the molecule and reactions in which it takes part.
..... Click the link for more information. that consists of a nitrogen atom joined to two oxygen atoms. Compounds that contain a nitro group, e.g., picric acid and trinitrotoluene (TNT), are called nitro compounds; many nitro compounds are unstable and are used as explosives. As a result of the chemical bonding in the nitro group, the nitrogen atom is positively charged and each oxygen atom has a partial negative charge. For this reason the nitro group has a powerful attraction for electrons. Many of the chemical reactions of nitro compounds are due to this electronegativity electronegativity , in chemistry, tendency for an atom to attract a pair of electrons that it shares with another atom (see chemical bond). For example, the molecule hydrogen chloride, HCl, consists of a hydrogen atom, H, and a chlorine atom, Cl, sharing a pair of
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Adding the eight nitro groups to cubane proved to be a challenge.

Powerful explosive blasts onto scene by Wu, C. / Science News

The first nitro group introduced into the ring causes an increase in the activation energy for the introduction of the second group.

The glass transition temperature of nitrated polystyrene/poly(acrylic ... by Al-Najjar, Mohammed M.; Hamid, S. Halim; Hamad, Esam Z. / Polymer Engineering and Science

Their analysis confirms theoretical predictions that the addition of nitro groups weakens the carbon-carbon links in the aromatic ring.

The electronic look of explosives by Science News