Hydrochloric Acid → Dodecylammonium chloride

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Dodecylamine (85 g, 0.46 mol) was dissolved in methylene chloride (500 mL). The solution was cooled to 0° C., and saturated with anhydrous hydrogen chloride (45 minutes). The white, crystalline solid was separated and dried in vacuum over phosphorus pentoxide, to provide 97.5 g (95.5%) of n-dodecylamine hydrochloride.

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