Reduction of nitroso compounds to amines

Since the nitroso group is the first stage in reduction of a nitro group, the conditions under which the former is reduced to an amino group differ, as might be expected, little from those used for reduction of nitro compounds. 

Gaylord, Reduction with Complex Metal Hydrides, Interscience Publ. Inc., New York-London, 1956, pp. (a) 751, (b) 761-762. 

Primary and secondary aliphatic nitroso compounds are usually present as dimers which can be converted into isonitroso compounds thermally or by irradiation.119 Thus aliphatic nitroso compounds are reduced in practice under the conditions described above for oximes. 

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