Ethylenediamine promoted the hydrogenative coupling of nitroarenes over Ni/C catalyst

2019 
Abstract Azobenzene and its derivatives are key raw materials and it is an environmentally friendly method for the preparation of azobenzene by hydrogenative coupling of nitrobenzene. The development of nickel based catalyst for organic transformations is of importance because of its relatively low cost and toxicity. In this work, we found that ethylenediamine can enrich the electron state of Ni and make the azobenzene easily desorb from the surface of the catalyst, which inhibits the hydrogenation of azobenzene to aniline. The selectivity of azobenzene is greatly improved. When the ratio of Ni and ethylenediamine is 1:10, the yield of the azobenzene can reach 95.5%.
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