“…Balancing the required reactivity versus the desired reaction selectivity of the intermediate was considered crucial to avoid undesireds ider eactions, that is, nonproductive reduction of the nitro group, the aldehyde, or imine functionality.S urprisingly,p henylsilane,w hich is a well-established reagent for the reduction of tertiary phosphine oxides, [10, 12c, 13] was lesse fficient (55 %y ield;T able 1, entry 8), whereas triphenylsilane and methyldiethoxysilane led to the desired product in only at race amount or av ery low yield (Table1,e ntries 9a nd 10). To our surprise, easily separable and inexpensive 2,4,6, was comparably effective to diphenylsilane and af- Figure 1. a) Biologically active molecules with the 2H-indazole motif.b )2H-Indazole fluorophore.…”