Swim has discovered a source for a significant quantity of diethylamine. A friend was wondering if there was anyway to convert this to ethylamine? A utfse search turned up nothing in this vein, and would like to know if this is possible?
I've looked at a few of the books I have but found nothing.........I did find a review of amines , there might lie a hint ...
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mwalter/tutorial_web/year2/nitr/amines.shtml (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mwalter/tutorial_web/year2/nitr/amines.shtml)
or try Noboru Ono book on Nitriles located ...........
http://www.chemistry.esmartweb.com/ (http://www.chemistry.esmartweb.com/)
I tried looking through it but , I guess you will have to search it out..............java
note: I corrected the link to Ono's book.....
I am not aware of any method of doing that which is easier/cheaper than making the ethylamine from scratch by other routes.