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Offline BloodCrisis

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Order according to basicity
« on: November 09, 2011, 10:10:19 PM »
Maybe someone can help me with this kinda of empirical thing...
"Please order according to basicity" and the options were
Alcohol/alifatic amines/ aromatic amines/ NH3/esters/alquenes/ Cl -trimethylammonium



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Re: Order according to basicity
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2011, 10:10:33 PM »
nh3 > alifatic amine < aromatic amine > alquene > ester > trimethilamonium Cl-> alcohol

im sure about the first 3....im confuse about trimethilamoniumCl- because is a neutral compond :S,

Alcohol is definetly the most acidic compound there.

I hope this helps a little bit.

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Re: Order according to basicity
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 06:36:59 PM »
Thanks, but i thought that a substituted amine was more basic than a nh3 because yo have M+ effect...
I cannot determine how basic is an ester since it comes from an acid and the same with the salt, o thought that was much more basic because its from an amine.

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Re: Order according to basicity
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2011, 11:34:54 AM »
You are not looking for acidity here, you are looking for basicity. The statement "alcohol is the most acidic compound here" is referring to the reaction R-OH ---> R-O- + H+, while the reaction you are looking for is R-OH---> R-OH2+.

Set up this reaction for each of your examples, and see if you can determine which reactions are most likely to occur.

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