The reduction of aromatic nitro compounds with activated iron

SE Hazlet, CA Dornfeld

Index: Hazlet; Dornfeld Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1944 , vol. 66, p. 1781

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Citation Number: 56

Abstract

In this investigation, a number of aromatic nitro compounds were reduced by the use of activated iron. The method employed was essentially that of. Jenkins, McCullough, and Booth, l which had been used successfully for the reduction of 2-and 4-nitrobiphenyl. The method was found to be desirable because the materials are cheap and undesired chlorinated products, which are obtained by certain other methods, are not formed by side ...