CHEMISTRY SHENANIGANS

Today's class consisted of an activity to build molecules with the kits Mr. Doktor gave us. After dividing ourselves into groups of 2 or 3, the race begun.

In today's class, we created a smell in our Esterfication lab. My group chose

Here's a quick review if you do not remember how Esterfication works:

Amines:
end in -amine after the alkyl prefix
have a double bonded oxygen to the carbon chain and NH2 connected to the carbon chain

Name the following:


Answers:
1. ethanamide
2. methanamide



Amides:
end in -amide with the carbon prefix
have possibilities of primary (one carbon chain), secondary (two carbon chains), or tertiary (three carbon chains) chains connected to nitrogen

Name the following:




Answers:
1. dimethylamine
2. methylamine