WE required a number of m-and $-alkylanilines for synthetical work. Recorded preparations of the+ compounds from alkylbenzenes, from aniline, or N-alkylarylamines, or of m- alkylanilines from their+ analogues, are tedious. Alkyl m-and fi-aminophenyl ketones would be convenient starting materials. Reduction of such compounds has been effected by the Huang-Minlon modification of the Wolff-Kishner reduction (Buu-Hoi, Eckert, and Royer, ...