Controlling the type of indium salt and hydrosilane enables a highly selective reduction of aromatic nitro compounds into three coupling compounds, azoxybenzenes, azobenzenes and diphenylhydrazines, and one reductive compound, anilines.
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science (RIKADAI), Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan. sakachem@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp
