RESEARCH ARTICLE

 

Silica sulphuric acid as an efficient catalyst for the catalytic and metal-free oxidation of aromatic amines to their corresponding nitro compounds with sodium perborate under micellar media

 

 

Davood Habibi^*; Mohammad A. Zolfigol; Maliheh Safaiee

Faculty of Chemistry, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan 6517838683, Iran

 

 

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ABSTRACT

Electron-donating substituted anilines were converted to their corresponding nitro compounds with sodium perborate in the presence of a catalytic amount of silica sulphuric acid under micellar media in moderate to good yields.

Keywords: Sodium perborate, nitro compounds, silica sulphuric acid, oxidation of anilines

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Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

 

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Received 6 December 2007
Revised 21 April 2008
Accepted 10 July 2008

 

 

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: davood.habibi@gmail.com