Radical reduction of aromatic azides to amines with triethylsilane

…, R Leardini, M Minozzi, D Nanni, R Scialpi…

Index: Benati, Luisa; Bencivenni, Giorgio; Leardini, Rino; Minozzi, Matteo; Nanni, Daniele; Scialpi, Rosanna; Spagnolo, Piero; Zanardi, Giuseppe Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2006 , vol. 71, # 15 p. 5822 - 5825

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Abstract

Aromatic azides are inert toward triethylsilane under thermal conditions in the presence of a radical initiator, but in the presence of additional catalytic amounts of tert-dodecanethiol, they afford anilinosilanes and thence the corresponding anilines in virtually quantitative yields.