A Facile Reduction of Nitroarenes to Anilines Using FeCl3 · 6H2O/Indium
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- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Synthetic Communications
- Vol. 33 (17) , 2985-2988
Abstract
Reduction of a variety of nitroaromatic compounds to the corresponding anilines occurs chemoselectively in high yields upon treatment with a new reduction system consisting of FeCl3 · 6H2O/indium in aqueous methanol.Keywords
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