A new rearrangement product, N-methyl-N-(wphenethy1)aniline (4), and a new cleavage product, N-methyl-AJ-benzylaniline (j), have been observed in reactions of N,N-dimethyl-N-beneylanilinium ion (1) with organolithium bases. N-Methyl-lV-(p-phenyl)aniline ( 5 ) was directly isolated from reaction mixtures, whereas it is destroyed by sodium amide. The Sommelet rearrangement product, N-methyl-it7-(0-xyly1)aniline ( 6 ) , was observed in very small quantities because of the benzylation of its 0-Li precursor by the starting salt, to give a dimeric product. Cleavage reactions of the quaternary benzylanilinium salt with potassium hydroxide and sodium ethoxide in refluxing ethanol also gave 3 in addition to the principal products, X,N-dimethylaniline (2) and ethyl benzyl ether. Analogous cleavage products were observed with organolithium reagents plus significant amounts of trans-stilbene (8). The effects of concentration, ether-hexane solvent mixtures, and anion of the salt on the ratios of rearrangement and cleavage products were studied for n-butyllithium reactions and are interpreted in terms of dianion and radical pair mechanisms.