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Offline jcais

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Correct way to write amine in molecular name
« on: February 09, 2007, 05:53:25 PM »
Hello,

When writing a molecular name involving an amine, do you write the amine as

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-N-H      or simply as   -NH2
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 H

Does it matter?

Thank you!
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Offline Yggdrasil

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Re: Correct way to write amine in molecular name
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2007, 06:04:23 PM »
Either way would be correct.
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Re: Correct way to write amine in molecular name
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2007, 09:02:09 PM »
Either way would be correct, but if you have my professor and you write NH2 with an electron pair he'll scold you and tell you that your lone pairs only come on Lewis structures! I got a 98 on my last test and one of the points I lost was for that very thing.
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Re: Correct way to write amine in molecular name
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2007, 09:33:09 AM »
There are many stages of presenting structures.Organic chemists use Lewis structures when presenting mechanism of reaction. But correct Lewis structure is always CORRECT (though more laborious). Note - aromatic amines show mesomeric structures.
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