Encyclopedia > Amine

  Article Content

Amine


Ammonia
Amines are structures resembling ammonia, where one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by alkyl groups:

Primary Amine:
Secondary Amine:
Tertiary Amine:

Naming:

Lower amines are named with the suffix -amine.

Methylamine
Higher have the prefix amino as a functional group.

2-amino-pentane

Properties:

Like ammonia, amines have basic properties, and they react with halogenoalkanes to form longer chains, with the release of a halogen acid. Amines react with carboxylic acids (or similar derivatives such as acyl chlorides[?]) to form amides. The volatile amines have strong unpleasant smells.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Reformed churches

... 1848 and survives in small numbers to the present time. The French refugees established French Reformed churches in the latin countries and in America. The first ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 71.9 ms