Benati Luisa, Bencivenni Giorgio, Leardini Rino, Minozzi Matteo, Nanni Daniele, Scialpi Rosanna, Spagnolo Piero, Zanardi Giuseppe
Dipartimento di Chimica Organica A. Mangini, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy.
J Org Chem. 2006 Jan 6;71(1):434-7. doi: 10.1021/jo0521697.
[reaction: see text] Aromatic azides are inert toward tributylgermanium hydride under thermal conditions in the absence and in the presence of a radical initiator but in the presence of catalytic amounts of benzenethiol undergo fast reaction, yielding reduced anilines and 2-germylated derivatives in high overall yields.
