A Novel Clay catalyst: N-Acetylation of Aniline

Ismail Shaikh, Sheserao Pawar,

Abstract

N-Acetylation of aniline by using clay as catalyst gives good yield acetic anhydride is commonly used as reagent for acylation of aniline but use of acetic anhydride is banned in Countries due to its utility in narcotics business. In the present investigation, we used acetic acid and novel clay