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In the presence of either platinum or palladium black, both ethylenimine and N-phenylethylenimine add hydrogen across the N-C bond of the ring under mild conditions.
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Palladium black is an especially active catalyst in this reaction.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2057–2059, November 1965
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Zotova, S.V., Loza, G.V. & Lukina, M.Y. The ease of opening the ethylenimine ring under catalytic hydrogenation conditions. Russ Chem Bull 14, 2024–2026 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00845908
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