Chemistry A-Level
Counting groups bonded to nitrogen
What Counting groups bonded to nitrogen means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Every group bonded to the nitrogen is counted, and the carbonyl carbon counts as one of those groups because it is directly attached to nitrogen.
Topics that use Counting groups bonded to nitrogen
- Amino acids, amides and chirality (OCR A-Level)
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- Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
- Amide and ester formation
- Bifunctional nature of amino acids
- Brønsted–Lowry base
- Carboxylate salt formation
- chirality
- Delocalisation and reduced basicity of the amide nitrogen
- enantiomers
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