... Download full text in PDF. Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.25,No.45,pp 5219222,1984 Printed in Great Britain 0040-4039/84 $3.00 + .00 984 Pergamon Press Ltd. SELECTIVE REDUCTION OF NITROARYLALKYLNITRILES WITh RYDRAZINE AND A METAL CATALYST Brian M ADGER* and Richard G YOUNG Smith Kline and French Research Ltd, Old Powder Mills, Leigh, Tonbridge, Kent. ... 5. F Yuste, M Saldana and F Walls, Tetrahedron Lett., 147 (1982). ...