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 mechanism of catalysis: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content..../ArticleLanding/2011

Forum post that I kind of followed: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=20145&page=2#pid313324

Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA

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