Reductive coupling of nitroarenes to hydrazoarenes with aluminium and potassium hydroxide in methanol

JM Khurana

Index: Khurana, Jitender M.; Singh, Sarika Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1999 , # 13 p. 1893 - 1895

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Abstract

A simple and inexpensive procedure for the reductive coupling of nitroarenes to hydrazoarenes with aluminium and potassium hydroxide in methanol at ambient temperature is reported. The coupling is proposed to proceed by single electron transfer from aluminium.