What is the main product when an amine is treated with nitrous acid?
Correct Answer: Diazonium salts
- Step 1: Understand that an amine is a type of organic compound that contains nitrogen.
- Step 2: Know that nitrous acid is a weak acid that can react with amines.
- Step 3: When an amine is treated with nitrous acid, a chemical reaction occurs.
- Step 4: This reaction produces a compound called a diazonium salt.
- Step 5: Diazonium salts are important because they can be used to create other organic compounds.
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