3. Ammonia is one of the weakest ($pK_a = 38$) acids known. Explain, with structures, why acetanilide readily looses a proton in aqueous base in contrast to ammonia despite them both bearing N groups.
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Both molecules contain nitrogen (N) groups, but the environment around the nitrogen atom is different in each case. In ammonia, the nitrogen atom is only bonded to three hydrogen atoms. This means that the lone pair of electrons on nitrogen is relatively Show more…
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