OCR A 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 Amines, Amino Acids, Amides and Chirality REVISION

[@FlyBarIP]

Great video, a nice compact revision. On behalf of all desperate students revising 1 day before the exam; thank you, really appreciate your work!

[@AlleryChemistry]

You are welcome!

[@LeahRebecca]

reallyyy appreciate these videos!!!!!

[@sabthesarcastic]

hello sir just wondering would we have to be able to draw the enantiomers for molecules with multiple chiral centers?

[@Big_Impact_Historics]

it's ETHANOLIC ammonia!!! Key detail you seem to have missed here!! Other than that great content haha

[@Big_Impact_Historics]

for the part where you needed excess ammonia and halogenoalkane to form aliphatic amine

[@rubiksworld2170]

@@Big_Impact_Historicsthe mark scheme accepts both, you can say excess ammonia instead of ethanolic ammonia but if u do u must say excess!

[@evaaa5100]

Super helpful! Thank you :)

[@AlleryChemistry]

You're welcome!

[@alexmason7103]

Hi, I do this course and I believe you may have missed out the isoelectric point of amino acids in this video?

[@zachwallis5770]

in the ocr textbook its in a purple box, meaning its extra thing that might help your understanding of the topic but it isn't on the spec so you don't need to know it for your exams etc

[@harrypalmtree6143]

Thank you for your help!

[@linasaadani636]

why do we make NH3Cl instead of just HCl? do we need the ammonia to break the N-H bond or can it just break by itself

[@scrumdum1]

I assume you mean the NH4CL at 6:36 ? In the second step of the mechanism the :NH3 acts as a base, so it takes the H from the N-H bond forming NH4+. The electrons left from that N-H bond on the rest of the molecule retract back to the N and you are left with the primary amine. Then the Cl- and NH4+ combine together

[@kavyasivakumar4159]

hi sir, On one slide it says there are two ways to make ALIPHATIC amines. Adding excess nh3 to a haloalkane and reducing a nitrile. On your next slide it says reducing a nitrile is to make an AROMATIC amine? which is correct?

[@zachwallis5770]

no, on the next slide it said reducing nitRO to make aromatic, and reducing nitrILE to make aliphatic, different things :)

[@aaryanramani1699]

Are Zwitterions part of the OCR Spec?

[@AlleryChemistry]

No, not for OCR. 👍

[@SITAE.]

Thank you sir

[@AlleryChemistry]

Welcome

[@queenbless7787]

Why is the Nh3 have a positive charge in the mechanism

[@rahanlol]

Because the extra hydrogen has no electrons (basically acts a proton so has a positive charge). It then reacts with the lone pair on the nitrogen and charge must always be conserved.