I'm on a quest to sample all of the world's foulestsmelling chemicals, and the next ones on my list are the isocyanides. To make isocyanides, however, I'll need organic amines like the one I'm making in this video: tertbutylamine. By itself, it's already a pretty cool and useful chemical, and plus, it has fairly powerful odor of its own, so making it was kind of a nobrainer for me!

Here is a link to the paper I followed:
https://orgsyn.org/Content/pdfs/proce...

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WARNING: the chemicals shown in this video are dangerous if mishandled. Sodium hydroxide and sulfuric acid are both highly corrosive. Tertbutylamine is also mildly toxic, and it tends to produce a lot of unpleasant fumes which may irritate the respiratory tract. Anyone who attempts this procedure does so at their own risk!

0:00 What're we making?
0:42 Ingredients
0:58 Making tertbutylurea
2:19 Recrystallizing the product
3:20 Making tertbutylamine
3:57 The smell
4:13 Distillation and yield
5:13 Subscribe for the isocyanides!
5:43 Outro