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Title: Alkylamine nomenclature
Post by: limpet chicken on November 26, 2004, 07:46:43 PM

I have a question, regarding secondary alkylamines, are secondary alkylamines things like DImethylamine and DIethylamine, as oppsed to methyl and ethylamine, or does the term secondary relate to substituted alkylamines such as phenylalkylamines?

Title: Re:Alkylamine nomenclature
Post by: Donaldson Tan on November 26, 2004, 10:59:22 PM

secondary means the amine has 2 alkyl groups attach to it.

Title: Re:Alkylamine nomenclature
Post by: limpet chicken on November 26, 2004, 11:20:31 PM

I asked this, because I read something interesting.

Phosphorus pentachloride makes a compound with ammonia, reacting directly and this when heated decomposes, yielding NH3Cl and HCl, and a substance of the formula PNH, with primary alcohols it gives the dialkylamine.

Looks like an interestingly easy synthesis for diethylamine and dimethylamine 8)

What say you people?

*whoops, was that the bottle of lysergic acid I just knocked over...only joking :))