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Efficient and Selective Room‐Temperature Gold‐Catalyzed Reduction of Nitro Compounds with CO and H 2 O as the Hydrogen Source
Author(s) -
He Lin,
Wang LuCun,
Sun Hao,
Ni Ji,
Cao Yong,
He HeYong,
Fan KangNian
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200904647
Subject(s) - chemoselectivity , nitro , catalysis , yield (engineering) , chemistry , environmentally friendly , hydrogen , combinatorial chemistry , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , metallurgy , ecology , alkyl , biology
Taking hydrogen from water : Gold catalysis enabled the selective reduction of nitro compounds under very mild conditions with a combination of H 2 O and CO as the reductant (see scheme). This environmentally friendly reaction proceeded in high yield and with high chemoselectivity in the presence of a wide range of functional groups.