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m-Tolunitrile
Hi!
Say one has a lot of m-Tolunitrile (3-methylbenzonitrile, CAS: 620-22-4) and has no clue what to do with it! Any ideas to change it into something
useful or sellable (legal!).
Thanks for your suggestions.
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njl
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I guess you could make DEET? If you for some reason felt so inclined.
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That would be HCl hydrolysis of the nitrile and ethylation of the N-position?
A good idea indeed.
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I suppose so, what I had in mind was oxidation to the acid and then amide formation with diethylamine. Either way, why do you have this (just out of
curiosity)?
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I don't... one supplier of mine has 300L of it that he bought for a client, but the client never showed up! So now he has 300L of this compound and
wants to do something to at least make up for the loss. That's why he asked me whether one could do anything with it. Still gathering ideas, but DEET
seems to be a good one.
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