Formaldehyde → HCID 23678959, compound

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37% Formaldehyde solution (18 g, 0.22 mol) was added to a suspension of sodium bisulfite (22 g, 0.2 mol) in water (25 mL). To this mixture was added tert-butylamine (28 mL, 19.4 g, 0.26 mol) at such a rate that the temperature of the reaction mixture was not exceeding 30° C. When the addition was complete, a distillation apparatus was set and the mixture was stirred at 70-75° C. for 10 minutes (excess of tert-butylamine was distilled off) and cooled to 10-15° C. The formed precipitate was filtered, washed with methanol and dried at 20-25° C. to give sodium tert-butylaminomethylsulfonate (30 g, 80%), as white plates, decomposition without melting above 180-190° C. (smell of amine),

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