Wohl-Aue reaction

The Wohl-Aue reaction is an organic reaction between an aromatic nitro compound and an aniline to form a phenazine in presence of an alkali base.^[1][2] An example is the reaction between nitrobenzene and aniline:

The reaction is named after Alfred Wohl and W. Aue.

References

1. ^ Alfred Wohl and W. Aue (1901). "Über die Einwirkung von Nitrobenzol auf Anilin bei Gegenwart von Alkali". Chemische Berichte 34 (2): 2442–2450. doi:10.1002/cber.190103402183. 
2. ^ Irwin J. Pachter and Milton C. Kloetzel (1951). "The Wohl-Aue Reaction. I. Structure of Benzo [a] phenazine Oxides and Syntheses of 1,6-Dimethoxyphenazine and 1,6-Dichlorophenazine". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 73 (10): 4958–4961. doi:10.1021/ja01154a144.