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Title: How does water react with ammonia?
Post by: Jill 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

Title: Re:How does water react to?
Post by: Mitch on April 23, 2004, 01:04:50 AM

Replace the NH3 with RNH2 and have a similar setup.

Title: Re:How does water react to?
Post by: Jill 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)