Anilines are the most important fine chemicals that have been widely used as the intermediates of industrial products. Herein, a new series of nanostructured Mo‐based catalysts were reported, such as MoOx/ZSM‐5(25), MoOx/ZSM‐5(50) and MoOx/SBA‐15, which can serve as efficient catalysts in the hydrogenation of nitroarenes by using hydrogen as the reducing reagent to afford functionalized anilines. Those catalysts showed both excellent activity and high chemoselectivity of the nitro group even though other reducible groups (C−X, C=C, C=O and C≡N) were exiting. This protocol constitutes an economically responsible pathway for the synthesis of anilines in high yields, good functional group compatibility and high chemselectivity.

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