[nurban]

I just did a reaction using aniline as the solvent...Any good ideas on completely removing the excess aniline?

[stewie griffin]

wash it out with aq. acid

[nurban]

The product has 2 secondary amines so an aqueous wash may remove product as well

[stewie griffin]

Haha, wow you're in quite a pickle then  . Surely you're going off of some precedent/procedure. What do your references say to do??

[stewie griffin]

Could you post the reaction? I'm curious as to why you ran it in aniline.... I've never seen anyone use that as a solvent before. Why not DMF?

[nurban]

The literature says to distill off the aniline, which would probably work well enough, i was hoping there was a shortcut out their so i could skip the distillation.
Aniline is a reactant as well as the solvent in this reaction. SN2 with dibromopropane

[stewie griffin]

Ah, well then. I was going to suggest distillation next, but, not knowing the product, I wasn't sure if your product could handle it. I'm thinking that's the only way you can really go here.

[russellm72]

Let me get this right you are reacting aniline with dibromopropane?

Do you actually get a useful product here using a primary amine and a primary alkyl halide? Have you actually analysed your mixture to see you have a decent quantity of product to warrant your purification?

I too have never heard of using aniline as a solvent but in this case it is not the way I would go about synthesising your suspected adduct..

Regards

R.