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 mech