Highly Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitro- to Azoarenes under Ambient Conditions

Morales-Guio, Carlos ; Yuranov, Igor ; Kiwi-Minsker, Lioubov

In: Topics in Catalysis, 2014, vol. 57, no. 17-20, p. 1526-1532

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    Summary
    Catalytic system of Au nanoparticles supported on metal oxides has been developed to produce azoarenes in one-step directly from nitroarenes under mild conditions (30°C, 1bar of N2) using 2-propanol as solvent and reducing agent. Close to 100% chemoselectivity to substituted azoarenes with different functional groups left intact and close to quantitative yields make this procedure promising for the production of azoarenes.