Question

Conversion of aniline to isocynobenzene

Answer 1

Answer:

This is benzene:

This is aniline:

Same thing, except for aniline having an amine group instead of a hydrogen.

One way or another, we’re going to have to rip off that amine group and replace it with a hydrogen. Removal of an amine group is called deamination.

How do you deaminate an aromatic amine?

The classical answer is, seemingly paradoxically at first, to add more nitrogen.