Summary Favorable conditions for the reaction of eight representative alcohols with four different amines to give secondary and tertiary amines have been ascertained. I t has been found that representative aldehydes, dialkyl ketones and alkyl aryl ketones may be di- rectly converted in good yields to primary amines by hydrogenating them over Raney nickel in an arnmonia-methanol mixture, The formation of secondary amines in the hy- drogenation of cyanides over ...