Acetophenone → N-(1-phenylethyl)formamide

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In the same manner as in Example 1 except that a mixture of formic acid, ammonium formate and acetophenone was heated with stirring at 160° C. for 6 hours in place of the concurrent addition of acetophenone and formic acid to ammonium formate for 3 hours and keeping the mass after the addition stirred for 3 hours, the reaction and post treatment were carried out to obtain 112 g of crude N-formyl-1-phenylethylamine; the purity: 82.7%.

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