Amylene nitrosate

Although no amine was produced by the reduction of amylene nitrosate, and only ammonia was formed, Wallach inferred from the results of the experiments described below that the compound had the structure V. 

By heating amylene nitrosate (V) with aniline in an alcoholic solution, amylene-nitrosoanilide (VI) was formed, which under the influence of nitrous acid gave the N-nitroso compound (VII) ... 

Guthrie [73] obtained the first nitrosate in 1860 by treating amylene with nitrogen dioxide. Wallach [74] found it to be a well defined compound, while this is not the case with the amylene and N203 compound. 

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