Synthesis of Certain N, N-Dialkylethylenediamines1

MS Bloom, DS Breslow, CR Hauser

Index: Bloom; Breslow; Hauser Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1945 , vol. 67, p. 539

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Abstract

N, N-Dialkylethylenediamines have been pre-several steps are involved, the reaction is readily pared by the Gabriel synthesis using ethylene carried out and requires only one distillation. bromide and a secondary amine, by the amina- The dialkylaminoacetonitriles were reduced tion of a dialkylaminoethyl bromide hydrobro-using sodium in ethanol or, preferably, in butanol, midea and by the reduction of dialkylaminoaceto-to form the ...