Chemical properties of amines

Having covered how amines are basic (13.5), this section turns to the wider range of characteristic chemical reactions amines undergo: laboratory identification tests (13.6.1), repeated (exhaustive) alkylation all the way to a quaternary ammonium salt (13.6.2), the beta-elimination reaction of that quaternary salt's hydroxide, called Hofmann elimination (13.6.3), acylation of the amine's N-H hydrogens (13.6.4), the carbylamine test specific to primary amines (13.6.5), and reaction with nitrous acid (13.6.6), which f …