Nitro compounds can be prepared by several methods including nitration of alkanes, from alkyl halides, and from primary amines. Nitro compounds undergo various reactions including reduction, hydrolysis, halogenation, and reaction with nitrous acid. Amines can be prepared from alkyl halides, oximes, alkyl cyanides, amides, and nitro compounds by reduction. Amines undergo reactions like basic hydrolysis, reactions with nitrous acid to form diazonium salts, acylation, and electrophilic aromatic substitution. Diazonium salts are important intermediates that allow introduction of groups like chlorine, bromine, fluoride, and hydroxyl into aromatic rings. They also undergo azo coupling reactions