Acetic Acid → Benzamide

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Watanabe, in Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan, 37, 1325 (1964), teaches the conversion of benzonitrile to benzamide with precipitated copper and Urushibara copper (U--Cu). The precipitated copper was prepared from a cupric chloride solution and zinc dust and was reacted with benzonitrile in water for 8 hours to give a 7% yield of benzamide. U--Cu--A was prepared by mixing zinc dust with a solution of cupric chloride and then leaching the resultant product with 13% acetic acid. The reaction of benzonitrile in water with U--Cu--A for 8 hours gave a 24% yield of benzamide with no recovery of benzonitrile.

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