Studies of the use of elemento-organic compounds of the fifteenth and sixteenth groups in organic synthesis LXXV *. Reduction of some organic compounds by tertiary stibines

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0022-328X(89)80003-8

Trialkylstibines can reduce nitroarenes to azoxy compounds, quinone to hydroquinone, and p-toluenesulfonyl chloride to p-toluenesulfinic acid in good yields under mild conditions.Debromination of α-bromophenylacetonitrile or 1,2-dibromo-1-phenylethane by tri-n-butylstibine gives 2,3-diphenylsuccinonitrile or styrene, respectively.