Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. an der Universit?t Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
Abstract:
Pyrolysis of iron-phenanthroline complexes supported on carbon leads to highly selective catalysts for the reduction of structurally diverse nitroarenes to anilines in 90-99% yields. Excellent chemoselectivity for the nitro group reduction is demonstrated.