Abstract p-Vinyl benzyl chloride was converted to p-vinyl benzyl cyanide which was reduced to p-vinyl-β-phenyl-ethylamine with lithium aluminium hydride. The amine gave an insoluble polymer on heating with azo initiator, but soluble polymer was obtained on polymerizing p- vinyl-β-phenylethylamine hydrochloride in aqueous solution by bisulfite/persulfate initiator. Preliminary pharmacological tests carried out on poly-p-vinyl-β-phenylethylamine ...
