Author: Richard A. Briggs

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Published: 1936

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Catalytic reductions of nitro compounds using platinum black and platinum oxide as catalysts have been studied for some time. Attempts have been made to determine the steps of the reduction of both aliphatic nitro and aromatic nitro groups in presence of other potentially reducible groups, such as ketone, aldehyde, and ethylene linkage. Studies have been made of the reduction of compounds containing two nitro groups on the benzene ring. In none of these studies, however, have any attempts been made to find data concerning the relative rates of reduction of a compound containing both an aromatic and an aliphatic nitro group until Ferguson in this laboratory synthesized such a compound (Îø-m-nitrophenyl- r-nitrobutyrophenone) in 1931. Both Ferguson and Dutton did some work on the complete reduction of this compound but very little on the partial reduction. The purpose of this piece of work was to study more fully the complete reduction and partial reduction of Îø-m-nitrophenyl-nitrobutyrophenone. With the completion of the study of this compound, a new compound containing the nitro group in a different position on the benzene ring and having a chlorine atom also on the ring should yield some interesting data when reduced.