Journal of the American Chemical Society

Raney nickel catalyzed N-alkylation of aniline and benzidine with alcohols

RG Rice, EJ Kohn

Index: Rice; Kohn Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955 , vol. 77, p. 4052

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Citation Number: 99

Abstract

7 29 80 5 48 71 10 18 73 15 16 82” 1 cjb 16 28 a< 5 6 78 2 5 18 73 a An 88% yield was obtained by six-hour extraction of the filtered and washed nickel with an ethanol-propanol mixture in a Soxhlet apparatus.* The nickel catalyst used was that recovered and extracted as in (a). In addition to N-propylaniline, 43y0 of the aniline was recovered unchanged.