How Do You Study The Chemical Reactivity Of Organic Amines?
• Learn what amines are. Amines are organic hydrocarbons that are attached to nitrogen in a single bond manner. Amines are very reactive group of compounds. This is so due to the existence of the electron lone pair on the nitrogen atom. The nitrogen atom in amines is relatively of low electro-negativity if we compare it with oxygen. • Therefore, the electron pull power of the nitrogen to share it is not so strong as in alcohols. This allows for the lone pair on nitrogen to be manifested in many chemical reactions. Primary amines are very reactive and they can be synthesized by the reaction of phathalimide with an alkyhalide followed by hydrolysis to form phthalic acid and the primary amine. • Understand how amines react. They usually react with an electrophile a two step manner. Namely, the formed amine from the first reaction with the electrophile continues to react further with another electrophile. This means that one does not expect a single reaction but a multiple reaction of the
