1. Reductive amination can be used to form primary, secondary, and tertiary amines.
2. Secondary amines are more basic than primary amines due to extra electron donation by the alkyl groups.
3. Tertiary amines are more basic than secondary amines due to steric hindrance.
4. Reactions at benzylic positions have increased rates due to stabilization of charged intermediates.
5. It is possible to use amides, reductive amination, and the gabriel synthesis to give primary amines.
6. Direct alkylation is a good way of selectively getting secondary and tertiary amines.
Typically increasing resonance of an amine (e.g aniline) makes it a worse acid.
7. The Hofmann rearrangement uses an alkyl ammonium leaving group.
8. Increasing s character on a nirogen lone pair makes it less basic.
9. Phenols are more acidic than alcohols due to increased delocalization of the charge in the conjugate base.
10. Phenols are more acidic than alcohols due to less steric hindrance.
11. In the 1H NMR amine N-H peaks are in the same range as alcohol O-H peaks, and amide N-H peaks are in the same range as phenol O-H peaks.
12. N-Nitrosamine functional groups always decompose readily.
13. We can make phenol by electrophilic aromatic substitution of benzene with HO+.
14. Phenols undergo keto/enol tautomerization.
15. Meta substituents have less effect (positive or negative) on the reactivity and properties of benzene substituents than ortho or para substituents.