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Reacting an amine with an acid anhydride will produce?Group of answer choicesan amide and a carboxylic acidan amide and HCla saltan ammonium ion and OH-

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Reacting an amine with an acid anhydride will produce?

  • Group of answer choices
    • an amide and a carboxylic acid
    • an amide and HCl
    • a salt
    • an ammonium ion and OH<sup>-</sup>
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Solution

Reacting an amine with an acid anhydride will produce an amide and a carboxylic acid.

Here's a step-by-step explanation:

  1. An acid anhydride is a compound that has two acyl groups bonded to the same oxygen atom.

  2. An amine is a compound with a nitrogen atom attached to one or more alkyl groups.

  3. When an amine reacts with an acid anhydride, a nucleophilic substitution reaction occurs. The nitrogen atom in the amine acts as a nucleophile, or electron pair donor, and attacks the electrophilic carbon atom in the acid anhydride.

  4. This reaction forms a tetrahedral intermediate, which then collapses to expel the weakest base. In this case, the weakest base is a carboxylate ion, which picks up a proton from the amine to form a carboxylic acid.

  5. The final products of this reaction are an amide (from the reaction of the amine with the acyl group) and a carboxylic acid.

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