Can you use catalytic hydrogenation to reduce an ester of a carboxylic acid and a phenol to an alkyl ether?
Like say reducing phenyl acetate to ethoxybenzene, or even more applicable, phenyl formate to methoxybenzene.
If one had a 2,5-dihydroxy-nitrostyrene he wanted to play with, could he form the diformate diester on the hydroxies, and catalytically hydrogenate the fuck out of the molecule to reduce both formyl groups and the nitroalkene to 2,5-dimethoxy-phenethylamine?
Just wondering, thanks.....
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