Organic chemistry is the chemical study of organic compounds like hydrocarbons. There are many functional groups of hydrocarbons, from alkanes to amides. One of these functional groups are called amines. Amines contain a nitrogen attached to one or more alkyl chains. There are three types of amines, primary, secondary, and tertiary.
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The purpose of this article is to explore super-basing amines through protonation, the two groups containing chains R=Me3Si and R=CN. The writer found search results on both amines on the Cambridge Structure Database. R=CN did not look promising but R=Me3Si would be created as a super-base with the anion B(C6F5)4. After experimenting the writer formed a thought from their observations saying “Perhaps the basicity of simple amines is related to their ability to form stabilizing water bridges across the ion-pair?” (Rzepa).
This article makes extensive use of amines. In this case they don’t seem to be hydrocarbons but it’s worth mentioning the amines from the course content. As mentioned earlier they are a functional group that contains nitrogen within organic compounds of which the course looked at hydrocarbons. There are primary, secondary, and tertiary amines. Primary is when there is one chain attached to the nitrogen, secondary contains two chains bonded to the nitrogen, and in tertiary there are more than two bonded chains. The naming convention for amines is amino.
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