Reduction of Allylic Nitro Compounds to Oximes with Carbon Disulfide under Solid-liquid Phase-Transfer Catalysis Conditions

All articles of this category A mild procedure for the synthesis of allylic oximes 2 from the corresponding nitro derivatives 1 , using carbon disulfide as reducing agent in the presence of wet potassium carbonate and a catalytic amount of a phase-transfer agent, is described.