Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the Director of the institute and CSIR
for providing the necessary facility and encouragement. Mr. US,
PKV and VK are also thankful to CSIR and UGC for providing
senior research fellowship.
Scheme 2 Chemoselective
methylbenzoate.
reduction
of
nitro
substituted
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