Ammonia → 2-Ethylhexylamine

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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.

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