The Bucherer reaction in organic chemistry is the reversible conversion of naphthol to naphthylamine in presence of ammonia and sodium bisulfite.
The French chemist Robert Lepetit was the first to discover the reaction in 1898 but it was the German chemist Hans Theodor Bucherer (1869–1949) who discovered (independent from Lepetit) its reversibility and its potential in chemistry especially in industry. Bucherer published his results in 1904 and his name is connected to this reaction. The organic reaction also goes by the name Bucherer-Lepetit reaction or (wrongly) the Bucherer-Le Petit reaction.
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