Benzoic Acid → HCID 20589204, compound

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Reaction Steps

4-Nitro-o-xylene (10.0 g., 0.066 mole) is shaken in a Parr hydrogenator with diethyl ketone (20 ml., 0.019 mole), 5% palladium on carbon catalyst (0.5 g.) and benzoic acid (0.5 g.) with approximately 3 atmospheres of hydrogen. When the uptake of hydrogen is complete, the suspension is filtered and analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography demonstrating thereby that N-(1-ethyl)propyl-3,4-xylidine had been produced in 83% yield.

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