Abstract
Thermal reactions of some representative N, N'-benzylidenebisamides with the reagents, trimethylammonium formate given by 5HCO2H·2N (CH3)3, ammonium formate and formamide, were examined to see reaction nature and to elucidate distinctions among them. In the formate reaction reductive fission at the carbon-nitrogen bond of bisamide was mainly induced by oxidation of formic acid to carbon dioxide resulting in formation of the corresponding N-benzylamide and in the formamide reaction formation of N-benzylformamide was induced by self-oxidation of bisamide. Ammonium formate behaved in the reaction in a poition between formate and formamide.
