Pinacol as a New Green Reducing Agent: Molybdenum??Catalyzed Chemoselective Reduction of Sulfoxides and Nitroaromatics

…, MA Fernández??Rodríguez, R Rubio…

Index: Garcia, Nuria; Garcia-Garcia, Patricia; Fernandez-Rodriguez, Manuel A.; Rubio, Ruben; Pedrosa, Maria R.; Arnaiz, Francisco J.; Sanz, Roberto Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 2012 , vol. 354, # 2-3 p. 321 - 327

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Abstract

Abstract Pinacol is disclosed as a new chemoselective and environmentally benign reducing agent for sulfoxides and nitroaromatics assisted by readily available dichlorodioxomolybdenum (VI) complexes as catalysts. A wide range of substrates including those bearing challenging functional groups has been efficiently and selectively reduced with acetone and water being the only by-products of these reactions.