Nanocrystalline Magnesium Oxide-Stabilized Palladium(0): An Efficient and Reusable Catalyst for Selective Reduction of Nitro Compounds

✍ Scribed by M. Lakshmi Kantam; Rajashree Chakravarti; Ujjwal Pal; B. Sreedhar; Suresh Bhargava

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 334 KB
• Volume: 350
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-4150
• DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200800018

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An efficient, mild and selective synthesis of aromatic and aliphatic amines from the corresponding nitro compounds has been realized by using a ligand‐free heterogeneous nanocrystalline magnesium oxide‐stabilized palladium(0) catalyst, employing molecular hydrogen as the reductant. The catalyst is recovered quantitatively by simple filtration and was reused for several cycles with consistent activity.