Reduction of nitroarenes to azoxybenzenes by potassium borohydride in water

Molecules

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3563-3568

  Liu, Yufang ^a   Liu, Bo ^b   Guo, Ailing ^a   Dong, Zhenming ^a   Jin, Shuo ^a   Lu, Yun ^c  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoxybenzenes; Nitroarenes; PEG 400; Potassium borohydride; Water

Indexed keywords

AMFENAC; AZO COMPOUND; BORANE DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM BOROHYDRIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AZO COMPOUNDS; BOROHYDRIDES; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRO COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; WATER;

EID: 79957615176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules16053563     Document Type: Article

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