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Named after the German chemist Hans Theodor Bucherer (1869–1949), who studied some properties of this reaction.
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Bucherer reaction
Today it means: The reversible conversion of a naphthol to a naphthylamine in the presence of ammonia and sodium bisulfite, widely used in the synthesis of aminonaphthalenesulfonic acids that are dye precursors. Full definition →