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Draw the structure of this CH₃NH₂?

This compound is called methyl amine and is the simplest amine. It is no longer ammonia because we have replaced one of the hydrogens with a carbon containing substituent.

Another way to look at these compounds is as an alkane with a nitrogen atom replacing one of the hydrogen atoms.

The important thing to remember is just as all organic compounds have carbon atoms with four bonds, all amine compounds will have nitrogen with three bonds. In methyl amine the nitrogen has three bonds; two to hydrogen atoms and one to a carbon atom.

Can you draw the structure of dimethylamine?

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