Post 47461 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=11427.msg4746100#msg4746100)
(uemura: "Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrostyrenes", Novel Discourse) (There are few >70% yielding nitrostyrene reductions from that era) andPatent GB2122617 (http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=GB2122617&CY=gb&LG=en&DB=EPD)
(they figured out the right tricks, eg. NH2OH. This ref is the way to go for high yields). I'll have another look at the library just to make sure this was the case and let you know if there's anything special. UTFSE throughly, at least one of the refs is here already:Post 421272 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=6888.msg42127200#msg42127200)
(Vitus_Verdegast: "electrochemical reduction of nitroalkenes", Chemistry Discourse).