Doc B
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Can I do anything interesting with 4-dimethylamino-benzaldehyde?
I don't know why I have it nor when I got it but I have a largish amount of 4-dimethylamino-benzaldehyde. Which looks like this...
In keep with my vaugeness both general and related specifically to this reagent, I don't know what to do with it. Has anyone out there got any
suggestions of an interesting or useful purpose for it?
For example, can it be delaminated back to benzaldehyde?
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Would conversion to the aldehyde via FeCl catalysied acid hydrolysis be possible?
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maybe via diazotization with sodium nitrite (Sandmeyer) and subsequent hydrogenolysis..but the CHO group might interfere
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Quote: Originally posted by Doc B  | Has anyone out there got any suggestions of an interesting or useful purpose for it?
For example, can it be delaminated back to benzaldehyde? |
Making benzaldehyde is aint so easy from that.. The formyl group will get damaged much more earlier that the NMe2 will get off.
But I have used this with ccH2SO4 and methanol to detect indoles in my reaction, it will give a nice colorination if any indole is in it. It also
works with amines as I remember, so it is pretty useful. Also a lot dyes are made from it.
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Wikipedia has some information of relevance.
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