Acetamide → 4023-12-5

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The conventional procedure of Example 1 was repeated except that 32.7 g (0.375 mole) of N,N-dimethylacetamide was substituted for the benzamide and a solution of 11.6 g of aniline in 50 ml of benzene was utilized. Workup as in Example 1 yielded N,N-dimethyl-N-phenylacetamidine in form of a colorless oil, b.p. 73° C. at 0.12 mm of mercury in only 53% yield based on aniline or 49% yield based on POCl3 and a meager 19.5% yield based on the acetamide.

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