p-Toluidine is an intermediate in the production of dyes, organic chemicals and aromatic azo compounds. It serves as a component of accelerators for cyanoacrylate glues. Furthermore, it acts as a bidentate Schiff base ligand through condensation with salicylaldehyde. It reacts with catecholamine to form a dye which is useful for spectrophotometric determination of catecholamine drugs.
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Applications
p-Toluidine is an intermediate in the production of dyes, organic chemicals and aromatic azo compounds. It serves as a component of accelerators for cyanoacrylate glues. Furthermore, it acts as a bidentate Schiff base ligand through condensation with salicylaldehyde. It reacts with catecholamine to form a dye which is useful for spectrophotometric determination of catecholamine drugs.
Solubility
Soluble in ethanol, pyridine, diethyl ether, acetone, carbon tetrachloride, methanol, carbon disulfide, oils and dilute acids.
Notes
Incompatible with acids, acid chlorides, acid anhydrides, chloroformates and strong oxidizing agents.
RUO – Research Use Only
Singh, K.; Dharaiya, N.; Marangoni, D. G.; Bahadur, P. Dissimilar effects of solubilized p-toluidine on the shape of micelles of differently charged surfactants. Colloids Surf., A 2015, 436, 521-529.
Jiang, G.; Tang, B.; Chen, H.; Liu, Y.; Li, L.; Huang, Q.; Chen, W. Controlled growth of hexagonal Zn2GeO4 nanorods on carbon fibers for photocatalytic oxidation of p-toluidine. RSC Adv. 2015, 5 (33), 25801-25805.