The presence of water or organic solvent vapour accelerates the solid-state condensation of solid aromatic amines and aromatic aldehydes into Schiff bases; we show the important role of catalytic triethylamine in the vapour phase in such vapour digestion synthesis, as well as in the liquid phase in synthesis via liquid-assisted grinding.
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Cinčić et al. (2012) studied this question.