Ammonia → 2-Ethylhexylamine

HRID 1706346Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1706346 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([CH:3]([CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH3:9])[CH2:4]O)[CH3:2].C(=O)(O)[O-].[Na+].[NH3:15]>[Ni]>[CH2:1]([CH:3]([CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH3:9])[CH2:4][NH2:15])[CH3:2]

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 222AmmoniaHCID 77202-EthylhexanolHCID 516892Sodium Bicarbonate

Product 1

HCID 77192-Ethylhexylamine

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 935NickelCatalyst

Procedure

The procedure described in Example 1 is followed. 650 parts of 2-ethyl-hexan-1-ol, 300 parts of a reduced nickel catalyst which contains 60% of nickel on kieselguhr and 7 parts of sodium bicarbonate are heated to 140° C. and at this temperature ammonia gas is passed into the well-stirred suspension at the rate at which it is converted. The reaction ends after 8 hours. The mixture is worked up by distillation and gives 96% of theory of di-2-ethylhexylamine, 1% of theory of 2-ethylhexylamine and 0.3% of theory of tri-2-ethylhexylamine.

Workup

  1. distillationThe mixture is worked up by distillation

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-517b5d838f52485e96d1c317b88268a6
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1980_06
Patent number
US04207263

Reaction notes

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