Ethylamine → Ethyl-(3,5,5-trimethyl-cyclohex-2-enylidene)-amine

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Ethylamine (42 ml of a 70% solution in water, 530 mmol) is added slowly to a stirred mixture of isophorone (9.67 g, 70 mmol) and ethylamine hydrochloride (0.29 g, 3.5 mmol) at -7° C. After the addition is complete, the temperature of the mixture is allowed to rise to room temperature, and the mixture is stirred for a further 72 hours. The mixture is subsequently cooled to 10° C., and potassium hydroxide (44.9 g, 800 mmol) is added in portions. After 45 minutes, ice is added and the mixture is stirred. The organic phase is then separated, dried over sodium sulfate and evaporated in vacuo to give the crude product (11.0 g, 95%) as a yellow oil, which is used immediately without further purification in the following step.

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