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Jill

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How does water react with ammonia?
« on: April 22, 2004, 10:27:40 PM »
Ammonia reacts with water as:

NH3 (1) + H20 (1) =NH4+ (aq) + OH (aq)

then how does water react to:

Primary amine
Secondary amine
Tertiary amine


Edit: edited title for better indexing. Mitch
« Last Edit: April 24, 2004, 06:30:12 PM by Mitch »

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Re:How does water react to?
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2004, 01:04:50 AM »
Replace the NH3 with RNH2 and have a similar setup.
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Re:How does water react to?
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2004, 11:17:30 AM »
So would this be correct:

Primary amine reaction to water

  RNH2 +H20 (1) = NH4+ (aq) + OH (aq)
Secondary amine reaction to water

R2NH + H20 91) = NH4+ (aq) + OH (aq)

Tertiary amine reaction to water

R3N + H20 (1) = NH 4+ (aq) + OH (aq)


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