Ammonium sulfide nitro group reduction

Aminobenzo[6]thiophene is prepared from 7-hydroxybenzo[6]-thiophene by means of the Bucherer reaction it may be converted into 7-nitrobenzo[6]thiophene via the diazonium salt.84 5,7-Diamino-3-phenylbenzo[6]thiophene and its 2-carboxylic acid are prepared by reduction of the corresponding dinitro compound.334 Partial reduction of o,7-dinitro-3-phenylbenzo[6]thiophene-2-carboxylic acid with ethanolic ammonium sulfide affords 7-amino-5-nitro-3-phenylbenzo-[6]thiophene-2-carboxylic acid, the amino group of which may be replaced by hydrogen or iodine via the diazonium salt.334 7-Amino-4-methoxybenzo[6]thiophene is mentioned in the patent literature.560... 

A reaction of 4-nitro-l,2-phenylendiamine with benzotrichloride in the presence of sodium methylate [367] has been described. In this case 2-phenyl-5(6)-nitroben-zimidazole is obtained without preliminary extraction of the ortho-ester of benzoic acid. Sometimes acylated polynitroanilines, with one of the groups in the orthoposition to the amino group, are used as the initial products. On partial reduction of such compounds the cyclization to benzimidazoles takes place [85, 368], For example, the reduction of 2,4-dinitroacetanilyde with ammonium sulfide has afforded 2-methyl-5(6)-nitrobenzimidazole (Scheme 2.41) [85],... 

This reaction has found little application to mercaptan syntheses since the mercaptans are usually as readily available (by other methods) as the disulfides. The S-S linkage is reduced by zinc in acetic or sulfuric " acid, lithium aluminum hydride, or metallic sodium. y-Hydroxy-propyl disulfide is reduced electrolytically in 70% yield. Reduction by sodium disulfide does not reduce the nitro group in the preparation of p-nitrothiophenol (65%), whereas zinc and acetic acid converts o-nitro-phenyl disulfide to o-aminothiophenol (90%). Disulfides made by the action of ammonium hydrogen sulfide on aldehydes are sources for difficultly available aromatic and heterocyclic mercaptans. The disulfides are reduced by aluminum amalgam and water. ... 

H). The use of sodium borohydride in the presence of platinum, palladium or Raney nickel [96] has been shown to give greater than 50% yields of benzimidazole )V-oxides, but even this reagent is capable of reducing a nitro group to amino, and combined with product loss on work-up, yields of the Af-oxides are often disappointing [97]. Sulfide reduction procedures (c.g. ammonium sulfide) seem better for 1-substituted benzimidazole 3-oxides than for benzimidazole 1-oxides [88, 92]. 

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