[jcais]

Hello,

What is a tertiary amine and how would one draw one for a molecule C₆H₁₅N? It's the start of our semester. We were given this problem "draw 7 tertiary amines w/ molecular formula (see above)," but we have not even gone over this yet. I read chapter one and it was just a review of inorganic chem - no tertiary amines. I looked up the definition online and in the book and I do not comprehend. I know that an amine has N. The formula above has a N. Does tertiary mean that there are 3 carbons attached to the N or three CH₃ groups attached to the N?

How could/why would there be seven different amines?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

[english]

Search.

[Yggdrasil]

A tertiary amine has three alkyl (hydrocarbon groups) attached to the nitrogen.  A primary amine only has one alkyl group attached to the nitrogen and a secondary amine has two alkyl groups attached.

[edit: thanks movies]

[movies]

A tertiary amine has two alkyl (hydrocarbon groups) attached to the nitrogen.

Three, you mean.

Just a typo.

[english]

...And to expand on this notion if we give the nitrogen atom an additional bond, giving it a charge of +1, it becomes a quaternary amine, which is commonly called a quaternary ammonium salt.


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[jcais]

Thank you everyone!