Ygggdrasil said:How do you think p-toluidine will react with hydrochloric acid? What type of simple reaction will this be?
Polar/non-polar is not an either/or type of question. There are varying degrees of being polar and non-polar. Overall, benzoic acid lies more toward the polar side compared to most organic substances, but it is not as polar as things like short-chain alcohols and other compounds.
Ygggdrasil said:p-toluidine contains an amine group. How do amine groups react with acids?
Ygggdrasil said:Amine groups are basic. Hence they will react in an acid/base reaction with HCl.
Amino acids are compounds that contain both an amine group and a carboxylic acid group.
Borek said:Yes. To make it more readable:
R-NH2 + H+ = R-NH3+
jnimagine said:if i write it this way, i don't need to balance the equation?! ... because it asked for a balanced chemical equation...
Borek said:It is balanced. But you must either explicitely write what R stands for, or write full formula of moiety instead.
naele said:It's polar because of the carboxyl group, but it's not as polar as say formic acid or acetic acid because of the size of the benzene framework. Try and deduce the general dipole moment. Alternatively, go to your computer lab and look up the electrostatic potential map of benzoic acid to see what it looks like.
jnimagine said:How do you write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction that can occur between p-toluidine and hydrochloric acid?? and is benzoic acid a polar or non-polar molecule overall??
jnimagine said:so the bigger they are, the less polar they are?
i couldn't find the electrostatic potential map... what does it show?
is it both polar and nonpolar or do i have to state one or the other?
Is the overall polarity different from parts of the molecule?
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