Radical reduction of aromatic azides to amines with triethylsilane.
Aromatic azides are inert toward triethylsilane under thermal conditions in the presence of a radical initiator, but in the presence of additional catalytic amounts of tert-dodecanethiol, they afford anilinosilanes and thence the corresponding anilines in virtually quantitative yields.
Benati
Luisa
L
Dipartimento di Chimica Organica "A. Mangini", Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy.
Bencivenni
Giorgio
G
Leardini
Rino
R
Minozzi
Matteo
M
Nanni
Daniele
D
Scialpi
Rosanna
R
Spagnolo
Piero
P
Zanardi
Giuseppe
G