Patent 7268255 was granted and assigned to Lonza Group on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
N-Aryl or N-heteroarylformamides are prepared by hydrogenating a corresponding nitroarene or nitroheteroarene with formic acid and/or ammonium formate as hydrogen donor and formylating agent in the presence of at least one noble metal-based hydrogenation catalyst and a vanadium or molybdenum compound as co-catalyst.