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Application of hydrazinium monoformate as new hydrogen donor with Raney nickel: a facile reduction of nitro and nitrile moieties

S Gowda, DC Gowda

Index: Gowda, Shankare; Gowda, D.Channe Tetrahedron, 2002 , vol. 58, # 11 p. 2211 - 2213

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Citation Number: 90

Abstract

The nitro groups in aliphatic and aromatic nitrocompounds also containing reducible substituents such as ethene, acid, phenol, halogen, ester etc., are rapidly reduced at room temperature to corresponding amines by employing hydrazinium monoformate, a new hydrogen donor, in the presence of Raney nickel. It was observed that the nitrile function also undergoes reduction to methylamine (–CH2–NH2). Hydrazinium monoformate is a ...