Amines are organic compounds formed from ammonia (NH3 by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by hydrocarbon groups (unlike the amides where the hydrogen in ammonia is replaced by organic acid groups). Primary amines have one hydrogen atom...

Plant amines can be considered simply as the products of decarboxylation of amino acids, although they are mainly synthesised in vivo by transamination of the corresponding aldehydes. The most widespread plant amines are conveniently divided into three...

Any of a class of nitrogen-containing organic compounds derived, either in principle or in practice, from ammonia (NH3). Almost all their chemical names end in -ine. Replacement of one, two, or all three of the hydrogen atoms in ammonia with organic...

An organic base that is formed when one or more of the hydrogen atoms of ammonia (NH3) are replaced by an organic group. Amines are further classified as primary, secondary or tertiary dependent on whether one, two or three respectively of the hydrogen...

Alkyl derivatives of ammonia. These can occur as primary, secondary or tertiary, depending on the number of ammonia hydrogen atoms replaced. Tertiary amines combine with alkyl halides to form quaternary ammonium salts, which are used as disinfecting...

An amine is a derivative of ammonia in which hydrocarbon radicals have replaced one or more of the hydrogen atoms ammonia possesses (see BIOGENIC...

The general structure of an amine Amines are organic compounds and a type of functional group that contain nitrogen as the key atom. In structure, amines resemble ammonia, wherein one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by organic substituents such as...