{"id":202310,"date":"2025-03-17T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=202310"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:20:39","slug":"when-acetic-acid-reacts-with-ammonia-nh3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/17\/when-acetic-acid-reacts-with-ammonia-nh3\/","title":{"rendered":"When acetic acid reacts with ammonia, NH3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When acetic acid reacts with ammonia, NH3, the reaction called<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A amidation yields<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B amino acetate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C acetamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D ammonium acetate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E ethylammonium hydroxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F ethanamide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>F: ethanamide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When acetic acid (CH\u2083COOH) reacts with ammonia (NH\u2083), it undergoes a reaction called <strong>amidation<\/strong>, forming <strong>ethanamide<\/strong> (commonly known as acetamide, CH\u2083CONH\u2082).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reaction can be broken down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Acetic acid (CH\u2083COOH)<\/strong> is a carboxylic acid, containing a carboxyl group (-COOH), which is highly reactive towards nucleophiles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ammonia (NH\u2083)<\/strong> is a weak base that contains a lone pair of electrons on nitrogen, which makes it a good nucleophile. The nitrogen in ammonia will attack the electrophilic carbonyl carbon (C=O) of the acetic acid molecule.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The process involves the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The nitrogen from ammonia attacks the electrophilic carbonyl carbon of acetic acid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A bond forms between the nitrogen and carbonyl carbon, resulting in the formation of an amide linkage (-C=O-NH\u2082).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This reaction also leads to the release of water (H\u2082O), a common feature of amidation reactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the product formed is <strong>ethanamide (acetamide)<\/strong>, with the formula CH\u2083CONH\u2082. This is an example of an <strong>amide<\/strong> functional group, where an amine (NH\u2083) reacts with a carboxylic acid (acetic acid) to form the amide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Options:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Amino acetate (B)<\/strong>: This would involve the formation of an amino group bonded to the acetate group, but this is not the product of the amidation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Acetamine (C)<\/strong>: This is a term that is not typically used in organic chemistry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ammonium acetate (D)<\/strong>: This is the result of acetic acid reacting with ammonia in a neutralization reaction, not amidation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ethylammonium hydroxide (E)<\/strong>: This does not apply to the reaction between acetic acid and ammonia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When acetic acid reacts with ammonia, NH3, the reaction called A amidation yields B amino acetate. C acetamine. D ammonium acetate. E ethylammonium hydroxide. F ethanamide The correct answer and explanation is : The correct answer is F: ethanamide. Explanation: When acetic acid (CH\u2083COOH) reacts with ammonia (NH\u2083), it undergoes a reaction called amidation, forming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}