M. Plater, W. Harrison
Nov 1, 2014
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Journal of Chemical Research
Abstract
Heating p-toluidine hydrochloride in tert-butanol gave a crystalline precipitate of N-tert-butyl-p-toluidine hydrochloride. This compound, now readily available by this simple procedure, was used to make mauveine, which was found by TLC analysis to be identical to authentic mauveine.