this writeup is trash.first of all the temperature with formamide is too low 140-150 sounds about right if u are using ammonium formate but formamide needs higher temp if i remember correctly and secondly N-Formylamphetamine is solid mass not liquid and why would you try to extract it from the reaction mixture completely useless step it only hurts your yields third your hydrolysis is wrong you are using 11l hcl that is insane even if you had 11 kilos of N-Formylamphetamine the amount would be close 2,5 liters of hcl not 11l its 1:1 by molar mass not by volume.why do you make everything so complicating Leuckart is simple reflux hydrolysis and then basify and then steam distill all in same pot so no extractions or solvents are are needed i highly doubt that you have ever done this reaction and if you have your yields are close to zero if you do it as you say.okay merry xmas to all im going to sleep im drunk as hell
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If you ran a leuckart at 140 150 with ammoina formate it would only break down into formamide anyway
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n-formylamphetamine is a a slightly yellow oily liquid
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It went to trash. I don't know what the hell is wrong with my Leuckart.. Reaction time 20 hours, temp: 150-160 C (formamide), and all reagents were in right amounts. Is it that my magnetic stirrer is broke and I don't stirr it more often, or what. My N-Formyl amine is always black. Do I burn it? And when I do base hydrolysis, there is not much if any ammonia gas produced, so my N-formyl "amine" is not at amine at all?! Can someone help me. My P2P was 8 grams amount + other reagents.