[windom626]

Hello everyone,

im a medicine student from Poland who likes chemistry. I don't have anyone to ask some of my questions from... i guess quite basic organic chemistry. Im learning for myself from McMurrey book, and some questions are not so easy to answer for me and i dont have confidence to think that im right. So...here is my question.

From Lewis theory of acids and bases:

How will react HCl (acid) with CH3CH2OH, NH(CH3)2, P(CH3)3 (bases)?

[rolnor]

Wich of your compounds is more basic? Does alcohol form salts?

[windom626]

CH3CH2OH, NH(CH3)2, P(CH3)3 they are the bases in reaction with HCl, because acid strenght of HCl is greater then those other compouds. So they must be in this case "bases".

No, i've forgotten that alcohols do not form salts

[AWK]

Using curved arrows, show how the species in part (a) can act as Lewis bases in their reactions with HCl.... so just treat these compounds as Lewis bases (just a nonbonding electron pair is sufficient)

[windom626]

Like this? I took photo of my notebook
https://www.flickr.com/photos/185390076@N03/49027750328/in/dateposted-public/

[AWK]

The oxygen atom between the hydrogen and sulfur atoms in the bottom line is missing.
More attention, please.

[windom626]

Oh, that's right, thanks. The rest is good?

[AWK]

In the textbook, a few lines above this question you can find a detailed mechanism of a similar reaction,
of course, not exactly for this reaction.

[windom626]

Yes i see it. So it's good.