Chemistry A-Level
Delocalisation and reduced basicity of the amide nitrogen
What Delocalisation and reduced basicity of the amide nitrogen means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The lone pair on the amide nitrogen is delocalised into the carbonyl group, so an amide is much less basic than an amine and does not readily accept a proton in the same way.
Topics that use Delocalisation and reduced basicity of the amide 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
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- enantiomers
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