A report on Ammonia, Nitrogen and Dimethylamine
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.
- AmmoniaThis secondary amine is a colorless, flammable gas with an ammonia-like odor.
- DimethylamineThe molecule consists of a nitrogen atom with two methyl substituents and one proton.
- DimethylamineMany industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
- NitrogenIn both cases, dimethylamine and trimethylamine are co-produced.
- AmmoniaMany saltwater fish manufacture large amounts of trimethylamine oxide to protect them from the high osmotic effects of their environment; conversion of this compound to dimethylamine is responsible for the early odour in unfresh saltwater fish.
- Nitrogen2 related topics with Alpha
Amine
1 linksIn organic chemistry, amines (, UK also ) are compounds and functional groups that contain a basic nitrogen atom with a lone pair.
Amines are formally derivatives of ammonia (NH3), wherein one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by a substituent such as an alkyl or aryl group (these may respectively be called alkylamines and arylamines; amines in which both types of substituent are attached to one nitrogen atom may be called alkylarylamines).
Secondary (2°) amines—Secondary amines have two organic substituents (alkyl, aryl or both) bound to the nitrogen together with one hydrogen. Important representatives include dimethylamine, while an example of an aromatic amine would be diphenylamine.
Ammonium
1 linksPositively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula [NH4]+.
Positively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula [NH4]+.
It is formed by the protonation of ammonia (NH3).
The lone electron pair on the nitrogen atom (N) in ammonia, represented as a line above the N, forms the bond with a proton (H+).
An example of a reaction forming an ammonium ion is that between dimethylamine, (CH3)2NH, and an acid to give the dimethylammonium cation, [(CH3)2NH2]+: