If you can get sodiumcyanoborohydride, surely hydroxylamine chloride/sulfate can't be hard to obtain? That will boost the yields quite a bunch!
Make the oxime like this (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/mdaoxime.html)
(https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/mdaoxime.html) and reduce it via the amalgamated Al, as described on rhodiums site!
Regards
Bandil
Hi dimethyl,i was wondering about using some other alcohol in place of EtOH.IPA should work fine(in theory).Raf will try this out in near future.You might to want to check out this thread:
Post 465769 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=10059.msg46576900#msg46576900)
(cublium: "Alternative to ethanol in oxime reduction with Na", Newbee Forum)
There really is not much detail on the amalgamated Al reduction of the mda oxime.
read this https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/alhg.oxime.html (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/alhg.oxime.html)
Questions such as the type of Al are rarely answered.
regular reynnolds wrap will do
Absoloute et-oh is hard to come by and $$$ if you find it. then use 95% EtOH, IPA or MeOH, they all work