Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Synthesis of Alkylhydrazines. I. The Reaction of Lithium Aluminum Hydride with Mono-and Diacylhydrazines1

RL Hinman

Index: Hinman Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1956 , vol. 78, p. 1645,1648

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Citation Number: 53

Abstract

Lithium aluminum hydride in refluxing ether or tetrahydrofuran reduces 1, 2-, diacyl-1, 2- dimethylhydrazines (RCOGCHa) z rapidly and in fair yields to the corresponding tetraalkylhydrazines (RCHZNCH~) Z. Acylhydrazines, such as RCONHNHCOR and RCOiSHN (CH3) 2, which have hydrogens on the acyl-substituted nitrogens, are reduced much more slowly under similar conditions.