“…The results show that the aromatic aldehydes with electrondonating substituents (OCH3 or CH3, Table 3, entries 1-4) exhibit a lower reactivity than those bearing electron-withdrawing groups (NO2, Br or Cl, Table 3, entries 7-12) due to the higher electrophilicity of the aldehyde in the latter case. In comparison to the scarce examples found in the literature for the catalytic nitroaldol reaction in water, using catalysts based on different metals (Table S3), the conversions obtained in this work are comparable, or better in some cases, taking into consideration the indicated reaction conditions such as temperature, amount of catalyst, and reaction time [43,44,[60][61][62][75][76][77][78][79][80].…”