Nitramine, 19. Mitt. Zur Stabilität von Dialkylnitraminen

Nitroamines, XIX: The Stability of Dialkylnitroamines Dialkylnitroamines are sensitive to bases and give aldehydes, primary amines and nitrite ions. After treating the N-benzyl-N-methylnitroamines 1–3 with lithium diisopropylamide we succeeded in isolating the aldimines 4–6 . From N-benzyl-N-(cyanomethyl)nitroamine (7) (cyanomethylimino)benzaldehyde (9) was obtained, and N-benzyl-N-(ethoxycarbonylmethyl)nitroamine (8) reacted with sodium hydride to yield (ethoxycarbonylmethyl)imino]benzaldehyde (10) .