Tetrahedron Letters

The oxidative amination of 3-nitropyridines

JM Bakke, H Svensen

Index: Bakke, Jan M; Svensen, Harald Tetrahedron Letters, 2001 , vol. 42, # 26 p. 4393 - 4395

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Abstract

3-Nitropyridine was reacted with ammonia or alkylamines and KMnO4 under several different conditions. Substitutions in the para position to the nitro group were obtained with high regioselectivity: with ammonia, 2-amino-5-nitropyridine (66%), with butylamine, 2-