Amines.

12 lessons100 min7 simulations10 practice questions

Amines are ammonia with its hydrogens swapped for alkyl or aryl groups, keeping nitrogen's lone pair. The chapter names and classifies them, shows six ways to make them, explains their hydrogen bonding and why their base strength depends on inductive, solvation and resonance effects, and covers the reactions that tell 1°, 2° and 3° amines apart. It ends with diazonium salts: how they are made cold, how the –N₂⁺ group is swapped for halogens, –CN, –OH, –H or –NO₂, and how coupling makes azo dyes.

Also called: amines and diazonium salts · basicity of amines