In the course of an investigation on cocoa red it was found that the methods of preparation of 2, 4, 6-triamino-m-xylene described in the literature are lengthy and give poor yields. A systematic investigation of the reduction of 2, 4, 6-trinitro-m-xylene therefore seemed justified, par-'ticularly since this reaction permits a study of a stepwise reduction complicated by the steric hindrance of two methyl groups. In 1860 Bussenius and Eisentuch'reduced a ...
