Transition Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Azidoarenes to Aminoarenes with Carbon Monoxide-Water System

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1986.1149

Azidoarenes were readily transformed to aminoarenes in good yields under mild conditions with carbon monoxide and water in the presence of a catalytic amount of rhodium(III) complex, which is more catalytically active than rhodium(I) or palladium(II) complexes.