(5-Methoxy-2-nitrophenyl)methanol → (2-Amino-5-methoxyphenyl)methanol

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This alcohol (2.1 g.) was dissolved in ethanol (100 ml.), Adams' platinum oxide catalyst was added, and the mixture was shaken with hydrogen at ambient temperature and pressure until 950 ml. of hydrogen had been absorbed (theoretical quantity=900 ml.). The hydrogenated mixture was filtered through "Supercel" (trademark) kicselguhr, and the solvent was evaporated to give 2-amino-5-methoxybenzyl alcohol as a brown solid;

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