Does anyone know for sure that you can make ethylamine from acetaldehyde ammonium chloride? It's around on the internet a little bit but I have seen no real reference to such a procedure.

Does another part of your recipe involve a benzene ring with 2 oxygens connected to the same methylene attached to it?

Hey that's naughty he he he. Seriously, if I was doing that I would have just tried it myself and not asked here. Seems to me that the reaction between acetaldehyde and ammonium chloride wont go... but I'd love to know if it does.

*fetches his organic chemistry resources.

 

http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/eschweiler-clarke-reaction.shtm

 

So it could work with an aldehyde, neither hydrogen of the formaldehyde is used in the reaction.

Wow, thank you very much for the link and even for bothering to think about this little puzzle. Now all I need is for someone to do it in front of a camera and put it up on Youtube ha ha ha ha.

 

Cheers