Sodium borohydride nitro compounds

AletalHydrides. Metal hydrides can sometimes be used to prepare amines by reduction of various functional groups, but they are seldom the preferred method. Most metal hydrides do not reduce nitro compounds at all (64), although aUphatic nitro compounds can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride. When aromatic amines are reduced with this reagent, a2o compounds are produced. Nitriles, on the other hand, can be reduced to amines with lithium aluminum hydride or sodium borohydride under certain conditions. Other functional groups which can be reduced to amines using metal hydrides include amides, oximes, isocyanates, isothiocyanates, and a2ides (64). 

The nitro group of aromatic nitro compounds has been removed with sodium borohydride. This reaction involves an addition-elimination mechanism. 

Sodium borohydride is a much milder reducing agent than lithium aluminium hydride and like the latter is used for the reduction of carbonyl compounds like aldehydes and ketones. However, under normal conditions it does not readily reduce epoxides, esters, lactones, acids, nitriles or nitro groups. 

The facile homogeneous catalysed reduction of acid chlorides to alcohols has many advantages over reduction with sodium borohydride in hydroxylic solvents where rapid reaction of the acid chloride with the solvent can occur [10]. The procedure has been incorporated into a simple one-pot conversion of aroyl chlorides into the corresponding benzyl chlorides (Scheme 11.1) under liquidrliquid or solid-liquid two-phase conditions [11], The reduction of a limited number of aryl compounds was reported with ca. 70% overall yields, although poorer yields result from the reduction of 4-nitro-, 2-cyano- and 2,4-dichlorobenzoyl chlorides, and the reduction failed completely with terphthaloyl chloride and with its 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro derivative [11]. 

Readily available a,/3-unsaturated nitro compounds such as 77 undergo facile reduction into aUtylhydroxylamines of type 78 (equation 55) with borane/THF complex in the presence of catalytic amounts of sodium borohydride 74 ... 

Methylcryptaustoline iodide (14) was synthesized from phenylacetic acid 47 by Elliott (39) as shown in Scheme 7. Nitration of 47 to the 6-nitro compound 48 and reduction with sodium borohydride afforded lactone 49. Reduction of the aromatic nitro group with iron powder in acetic acid gave ami-nolactone 50, which was converted to tetracyclic lactam 51 with trifluoroacetic acid in dichloromethane. Reduction of the lactam by a borane-THF complex followed by treatment with methyl iodide afforded ( )-0-methylcryptaustoline iodide (14). 

Other reagents that have been used to reduce support-bound aromatic nitro compounds include phenylhydrazine at high temperatures (Entry 5, Table 10.12), sodium borohydride in the presence of copper(II) acetylacetonate [100], chromium(II) chloride [196], Mn(0)/TMSCl/CrCl2 [197], lithium aluminum hydride (Entry 3, Table... 

Reduction of nitroalkenes. a, p-Unsaturated nitro compounds can be reduced to hydroxylamines by BH3 THF in the presence of a catalytic amount of sodium borohydride (equation I).1... 

Aminobenzo[6]thiophene and its simple ring-substituted derivatives are most conveniently obtained by reduction of the corresponding nitro compound with tin and hydrochloric acid,883,334,544,545 iron and hydrochloric acid,555 ferrous sulfate and ammonia,185,330 333 334,497 sodium borohydride and palladized charcoal,337 cata-lytically,152, 422,488,543 or, preferably, with Raney nickel and hydrazine hydrate.152,298,338,497,556 Several 5-aminobenzo-[6]thiophenes may also be made by cyclization reactions (Section IV, D).239,330,331 333,494... 

Aromatic and heterocyclic nitro compounds are readily reduced in good yield to the corresponding amines (e.g. o-aminophenol, Expt 6.50) by sodium borohydride in aqueous methanol solution in the presence of a palladium-on-carbon catalyst. In this reduction there is no evidence for the formation of intermediates of the azoxybenzene or azobenzene type, although if the reaction is carried out in a polar aprotic solvent, such as dimethyl sulphoxide, azoxy compounds may sometimes be isolated as the initial products. 

Secondary amines can be prepared from the primary amine and carbonyl compounds by way of the reduction of the derived Schiff bases, with or without the isolation of these intermediates. This procedure represents one aspect of the general method of reductive alkylation discussed in Section 5.16.3, p. 776. With aromatic primary amines and aromatic aldehydes the Schiff bases are usually readily isolable in the crystalline state and can then be subsequently subjected to a suitable reduction procedure, often by hydrogenation over a Raney nickel catalyst at moderate temperatures and pressures. A convenient procedure, which is illustrated in Expt 6.58, uses sodium borohydride in methanol, a reagent which owing to its selective reducing properties (Section 5.4.1, p. 519) does not affect other reducible functional groups (particularly the nitro group) which may be present in the Schiff base contrast the use of sodium borohydride in the presence of palladium-on-carbon, p. 894. 

Satoh, T., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Miyaji, Y., and Imai, Z., Reduction of organic compound with sodium borohydride-transition metal salt systems reduction of organic nitrile, nitro and amide compounds to primary amines, Tetrahedron Lett., 10, 4555 4558, 1969. 

This route can be useful in controlling the orientation of a substituent. Nitration of Fischer s base gives the 5-nitro compound, whereas the nitration of the reduced Fischer s base gives the 6-nitroindoline. Its easy oxidation is the best preparative method for the useful 6-nitro Fischer s base. Fischer s base is conveniently reduced to 1,2,3,3-tetramethylindoline (22) simply by stirring with sodium borohydride pellets in methanol at room temperature (72% yield).363... 

The new metallic hydrides are excellent reducing agents for carbonyl compounds. These hydrides now include lithium aluminum hydride, lithium borohydride, and sodium borohydride. The last reagent may be used in either aqueous or methanolic solutions. It does not reduce esters, acids, or nitriles and, for this reason, is superior for certain selective reductions. Other groups which are unaffected by this reagent include a,/S-double bonds and hydroxyl, methoxyl, nitro, and dimethylamino groups. ... 

An interesting reduction of aromatic nitro compounds which uses glucose in an alkaline medium (equation 7) has received little attention. The advantages of this reaction include high yields, rapid rate and ease of product isolation from oxidation by-products. Other reagents which bring about the reduction of nitroanenes to azoxy compounds include potassium borohydride, sodium arsenate, phosphine and yellow phosphorus. Electrolytic methods have also been utilized. ... 

Tellurides (H2Te, NaTeH, PhTeH and Na2Te) are inexpensive and effective agents for reducing aromatic nitro compounds to hydroxylamines. Catalytic quantities of tellurium, in the presence of sodium borohydride, reduce p-substituted nitrobenzenes to N-arylhydroxylamines (equation 9). Mild reaction conditions, absence of side reactions and experimental simplicity are the main features of this reduction sequence. 

Titanium(II) reagents have also been used to reduce aliphatic nitro compounds to amines halo, cyano and ester groups are not reduced. Sodium borohydride, in the presence of catalytic amounts of nickel(II) chloride, reduces a variety of aliphatic nitro compounds to amines. Nickel boride (Ni2B) is an active catalyst for reductions of primary, secondary and tertiary nitro aliphatic compounds to amines. The reduction of nitrocyclohexane (45) yields cyclohexylamine (47) as well as small amounts of dicyclohexylamine (49), the latter being formed via reaction of intermediates (46) and (48 equation 28). 

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