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IN a recent communication, Angyal and Rassack1 show that the Sommelet reaction2 is an oxidation-reduction process with the aldimine Ph.CH = NH as a probable intermediate, and does not involve, as originally suggested by Sommelet2, and stated by Graymore and Davies3, prototropic conversion of methylenebenzylamine (I) to benzylidenemethylamine (II).
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SHOPPEE, C. The Sommelet Reaction. Nature 162, 619–620 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162619b0
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