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.
   • Pyridine from Niacin  

A possibly similar mechanism of catalysis: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Articl...

Forum post that I kind of followed: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/vi...


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