Amines

Download or read book Amines written by Stephen A. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The understanding of amine chemistry is of paramount importance to numerous chemical industries, as well as academic research. This book provides an authoritative account of the properties and applications of amines with respect to the characteristics of bonded substituents and the nature of their surrounding chemical and physical environments. The synthesis of alkyl, aryl and heterocyclic amines and inorganic amines with a review of their typical reactions is comprehensively treated, whilst practical synthetic and analytical methods for laboratory preparation and detection are provided. The importance of amine chemistry from the nineteenth century to the modern day, with a brief history of the development of ammonia synthesis, is included.