Have you tried with normal hydrogenation method, non-aq. using Raney Ni?
regards
Vijay Sane
vsane@hotmail.com
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>Subject: ORGLIST:procedure for the reduction of a aliphatic secondary amide
>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:45:22 +0800 (SGT)
>
>Dear all
> I have prepared a long chain secondary amide(N-ethyl-octadecylamide).
>I want to reduce this to the corresponding sec. amine. LAH and
>DMSO+Methane sulphonic acid are not reducing this amide. if you can
>suggest any other procedure to reduce this Sec. aliphatic amide it will be
>very useful for me.
>thank you.
>
>with regards
>MSC.
>
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