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Give one chemical test to distinguish between the following pairs of compounds.

1. Methylamine and dimethylamine

2. Secondary and tertiary amines

3. Ethylamine and aniline

4. Aniline and benzylamine

5. Aniline and N-methylaniline

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1. Methyl amine is a 1° amine and so it gives the carbylamine test. When methylamine is warmed with chloroform and alcoholic solution of KOH, foul smelling methyl isocyanide is formed.

Dimethyl amine is a 2° amine and hence it does not answer carbylamine test. Or they can be distinguished by Hinsberg’stest. 

2. Secondary and tertiary amines can be distinguished by Hinsberg’stest.

Secondary amines react with Hinsberg’s reagent (benzene sulphonyl chloride) to form N, N- dialkyl benzene sulphonamide which is insoluble in alkali.

Tertiary amines do not react with Hinsberg’s reagent.

3. Ethyl amine is an aliphatic 1° amine. When treated with HNO2 (NaNO2 and HCI) it forms ethanol with liberation of N3 gas.

Aniline is an aromatic 1° amine. When treated with HNO2 at low temperature (273 – 278 K) it gives benzene diazonium chloride which undergoes coupling reaction with phenol to form an orange azo dye.

C6H5NH2 + HNO3 + HCI → C6H5N2++Cl + 2H2O

4. Aniline forms azodye with benzene diazonium chloride but benzyl amine does not.

5. Aniline being a primary amine gives carbylamine test while N-methylaniline being a 2° amine does not answer carbylamine test.

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