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Zak Amin
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glycine

 

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Hi,

Could someone explain how to get the answer, I still don't understand. I've attached the Question, MS and what glycine looks like. Question is 1 mark.

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Note 3 Mar 2021
Note 3 Mar 2021

Top picture is a reminder of what happens when you have excess haloalkane + NH3 (you keep substituting the Hydrogens on the Ammonia until they have all been replaced by the R- Group of the haloalkane, in this case it was CH3). This keep happening until you get a quaternary amine. The reason it has a positive charge is because in the last reaction, there are no hydrogens to swap, so the Nitrogen atom has to use it's lone pair to accept the final CH3).

 

The second picture shows that amino acids have similar reaction as they have an amino group which can do the same reaction as above.

Do you understand? 

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@m-tawofi Yes, thank you very much. So if the question doesn't specify the molar ratio of amino acid: haloalkane, should I assume that a quaternary ammonium salt would form if given haloalkane is in "excess"?

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@zak-amin

correct.

You're welcome 🙂

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