Today we are making some pyridine from niacin. We use basic copper carbonate as a catalyst to get things going. There is another method that is a lot more efficient, where a copper chromite catalyst is used and a video on this has been made by Doug's Lab. I opted not to use the copper chromite catalyst because it is a little harder to prepare. Apparently CaO might also be useable though, which would be pretty easy to make/get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsqYwzm40M A possibly similar mechanism of catalysis: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/DT/c1dt10771b#!divAbstract Forum post that I kind of followed: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=20145&page=2#pid313324 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NileRed Store - null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■ NileRed is now available on Nebula! https://go.nebula.tv/nilered (when signing up with this link, a portion of your membership directly supports the channel) Join the community: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/nilered Discord - https://discord.com/invite/3BT6UHf NileRed Newsletter - https://nile.red/home#newsletter You can also find me here: Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/NileRed2 Instagram - https://m.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/NileRed2 Nile talks about lab safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftACSEJ6DZA