Thursday, November 10, 2011

Organic Question-Reduction of Nitroacetophenone?

how would you reduce m-nitroacetophenone to 3-1(hydroxyethyl)aniline using NaBH4 in ethanol? would NaBH4 just reduce the double bonded O, then would Sn/HCl be good to reduce the NO2 group to NH2?

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