Question
- Explain why an alkylamine is more basic than ammonia.
- How would you convert:
- Aniline to nitrobenzene.
- Aniline to iodobenzene?
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Answer
- Due to +1 effect/electron donating character of alkyl group, alkylamine is more basic than ammonia.
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