Amine

Description

A class of organic compounds in which one or more protons have been replaced by an -NH functional group. Amines are referred to as primary, secondary or tertiary depending on whether one, two or three of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by an organic substituent. All amines are alkaline and with react with acids to form salts.

Synonyms and Related Terms

amines; amin (Ces., Sven.); Amine (Deut.); amina (Esp., Pol., Port.); amine (Fr., Ned.);

Resources and Citations

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 55

• Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993

• Richard C. Wolbers, Nanette T. Sterman, Chris Stavroudis, Notes for Workshop on New Methods in the Cleaning of Paintings, J.Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 1990

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine (Accessed Mar. 20, 2006) -for non-English terms

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998