Product of cyclohexanone/benzaldehyde with a substituted amine?
1 Answer
May 14, 2016
You should get an imine:
Explanation:
A primary amine,
And with a ketone:
Reaction (i) is usually very facile; sometimes you do not even need to use solvent, and you just add amine to aldehyde and remove the water. Formation of an imine from a ketone to give a ketimine is a little bit harder; you may have heat under reflux and remove the water produced; the carbonyl on the ketone is much more sterically hindered than the aldehyde. Both unsaturated nitrogen compounds tend to be a little bit unstable, so they are usually used directly.
