Tripropylamine → Tripropylamine

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

1,1,1-Tripropylhydrazinium chloride (19.4 g, 0.1 mole) is reacted with dry, powdered sodamide (4.0 g, 0.102 mole) in the presence of excess tripropylamine as the reaction medium. The mixture is degassed, then heated rapidly to reflux temperature (156° C.) in a stream of dry nitrogen, and the refluxing vapors are led into a glass fractionating column to yield hydrazine (bp 113°) as the distillate, tripropylamine remaining in the reaction vessel for reuse.

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