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What is an N-substitued amine and when do you include it in the name of a molecule??

What is an N-substitued amine and when do you include it in the name of a molecule?? Thanks , help is much appreciated :smile:
Original post by emmalav
What is an N-substitued amine and when do you include it in the name of a molecule?? Thanks , help is much appreciated :smile:

Heya, I'm going to put this in the chemistry forum for you as you should get more responses there. :smile:

You should also check out the forum to see if there's any other threads there which might be helpful to you!

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=130
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If you start with ammonia, you can pull of an H and replace it with, for example, a methyl group. This is a primary amine.

If you pull off a second H and replace that with an ethyl group, you have a secondary amine. etc.

The amine formed is named N-methylethylamine (although there may be a space in there, I can't think, I'm too sleepy), which means you have a methyl group attached to the N of the ethylamine.

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