Turning nitroarenes into aromatic amines is a bread-and-butter organic chemistry reaction. But lots of these methods have drawbacks. A new reaction from P. Andrew Evans and Gregory Jerkiewicz sidesteps many of those. My latest in @cenmag.bsky.social.
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Cheap reagent used in batteries selectively reduces nitroaromatics