During our work a revised procedure for the conversion of triazenes to phenols was released (Nicolaou, KC; Takayanagi, M.; Jain, NF; Natarajan, S.; Koumbis, AE; Bando, T.; Ramanjulu, JM Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl.1998, 37, 2717–2719). However, application of this method on several model compounds was still yielding the undesired reduced compound as the main product.
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