Chemistry A-Level
Basicity of amines
What Basicity of amines means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Distinguishing an aromatic amine from an aliphatic amine when predicting relative base strength, since a phenylamine-type aromatic amine is far less basic because its lone pair is delocalised into the ring.
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