CHEMOSELECTIVE REDUCTIVE COUPLING OF NITROARENES WITH MAGNESIUM IN METHANOL VIA SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSFER

Authors
KHURANA JM RAY A
Citation
Jm. Khurana et A. Ray, CHEMOSELECTIVE REDUCTIVE COUPLING OF NITROARENES WITH MAGNESIUM IN METHANOL VIA SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSFER, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 69(2), 1996, pp. 407-410
Citations number
57
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry
Journal title
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092673
Volume
69
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
407 - 410
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2673(1996)69:2<407:CRCONW>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A chemoselective reductive coupling of nitroarenes using magnesium in methanol has been reported at ambient temperature. While the cyano, fo rmyl, methoxycarbonyl, methyl, methoxy, phenyl, amino, and chloro grou ps are unaffected, iodo and bromo groups undergo dehalogenation but in a slower reaction than the coupling of nitro group. The coupling is b elieved to be proceeding via SET from Mg to nitroarenes.