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Benzene is nitrated with nitrating mixture (a mixture of concentrated nitric and concentrated sulfuric acid), which is a source of electrophilic nitronium ion.

Generic Organic reaction

  +  
HNO3
  +  
H2SO4
         
  +  
H2O
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Benzene     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Nitric acid, concentrated     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Sulfuric acid Catalyst    Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Nitrobenzene     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Water     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: A2
Functional Group Interconvertion
Industrial Process: Organic
Substitution: Electrophilic Aromatic

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