Amines and amides

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What is the difference between an ammonia atom and amine?
When one hydrogen is replaced with an organic group
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What is a primary amine?
When one of the hydrogens in the ammonia molecule is replace by one organic compound
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What is a secondary amine?
When two of the hydrogens on the ammonia molecule is replaced by two organic compounds
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What is a tertiary amine?
When three of the hydrogens on the ammonia molecule are replaced by three organic compounds
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What is a quaternary ammonium ion?
When all 3 hydrogens are removed and 4 organic compounds are added to the nitrogen
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What charge does an ammonium ion have?
Positive
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What is the suffix for naming an amine?
-amine
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Why are amines known as bases?
Because they can donate their pair of free electrons in a dative bond with a compound
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What does an amine +acid make?
An amine salt
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What reaction do you use to make amines?
Nucleophillic substitution
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What do you need to make an amine ?
Ammonia and a haloalkane
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What are the characteristics of amines?
Unpleasant fishy smell, involved in amino acid production, drugs,
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What does ammonia have to be dissolved in to be able to undergo nucleophillic substitution?
Ethanol
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What are the two functional groups amino acids are made from?
Amine group and a carboxylic group
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Why can amino acids react with both bases and acids ?
Because they have an acid functional group and an amine functional group which means they can interact to from salts
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What functional group reacts with an alkali to form a conjugate base?
The carboxylic acid group
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What functional group reacts with an acid to form a conjugate acid?
The amine group
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What compound can an amino acid form with a strong acid catalyst ?
An ester
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What is a primary amine?

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When one of the hydrogens in the ammonia molecule is replace by one organic compound

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What is a secondary amine?

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What is a tertiary amine?

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What is a quaternary ammonium ion?

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