Chemistry (Organic) Ethylamine, CH3CH2NH2, is an amine. Amines have a NH2 group.

(a) Name another type of compound which has a NH2 group. State a use for the compound you have named. [2] Ethylamine reacts with nitrous acid, HNO2, in the following manner to form nitrogen gas, water and ethanol. CH3CH2NH2 + HNO2 CH3CH2OH + N2 +H2O (b) If 60g of ethylamine was reacted with excess nitrous acid, calculate the volume of N2 gas evolved at room temperature and pressure. [3] (c) Given methanol, ethylamine and suitable chemical reagents, suggest how methylethanoate is formed, giving the conditions of each step and each intermediate. (equations are not required.) [4] (d) Draw the full structural formula for methylethanoate. [1]

Answers (a) Amino acids. Building blocks for proteins. (b) Moles of ethylamine = 60/(15+14+16) = 1.33 mol Moles of nitrogen gas produced = 1*1.33 = 1.33 mol Volume of nitrogen gas produced = 1.33*24 = 32 dm3 (c) Start with ethylamine Step 1: nitrous acid Ethylamine to ethanol Step 2: acidified potassium dichromate (VI), heat Ethanol to ethanoic acid Step 3: methanol, heat with concentrated sulfuric acid Ethanoic acid to methylethanoate (d) Full structural formula