Tetrahedron Letters

Palladium-catalysed transfer hydrogenation of aromatic nitro compounds—an unusual chain elongation

J Nemeth, Á Kiss, Z Hell

Index: Nemeth, Janos; Kiss, Arpad; Hell, Zoltan Tetrahedron Letters, 2013 , vol. 54, # 45 p. 6094 - 6096

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Abstract

Abstract Aromatic nitro compounds are reduced via transfer hydrogenation in the presence of palladium on magnesium-lanthanum mixed oxide support in ethanol yielding the corresponding amines. With several acetophenone derivatives, the reduction was accompanied by chain elongation whilst the carbonyl group remained intact.