RareEarth - 29-4-2015 at 15:51
I was planning to try to make some substituted chloramines with sodium hypochlorite (bleach), and I wanted to minimize the the formation of the
hydrazine-like compound. How realistically can this performed? If it is possible, what kind of reaction parameters should I control?
Metacelsus - 29-4-2015 at 16:20
Is your starting amine primary or secondary? If it's secondary, making sure hypochlorite is always in excess should do the trick. (This wouldn't work
with primary amines, because dichloroamines could form).
RareEarth - 29-4-2015 at 16:30
Yes it would be a secondary amine. Are you saying that the hydrazine-type compound is difficult to form under these circumstances?