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This what I love, easy questions. An amino group is an o/p director, but ammonium (NH3+) is a meta director. When you do a nitration in sulfuric/nitric acid, the amino group becomes protonated. It changes from an o/p to a meta director.
 
 
An electrophilic substitution question
Thursday, November 2, 2006