Morales-Guio, Carlos G.Yuranov, IgorKiwi-Minsker, Lioubov2014-11-172014-11-172014-11-17201410.1007/s11244-014-0329-xhttps://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/108901WOS:000344158300032Catalytic system of Au nanoparticles supported on metal oxides has been developed to produce azoarenes in one-step directly from nitroarenes under mild conditions (30 °C, 1 bar of N2) using 2-propanol as solvent and reducing agent. Close to 100 % chemoselectivity to substituted azoarenes with different functional groups left intact and close to quantitative yields make this procedure promising for the production of azoarenes.azoarenesheterogeneous catalysisreductive couplingtext::journal::journal article::research article