Economic importance of amines

Question 1

What synthetic do amines produce?

Answer 1

nylon and polyurethane, dyes, and drugs

Question 2

What are quaternary ammonium compound used for?

Answer 2

industrially for the manufacture of hair and fabric conditioners

Question 3

What do quarternary ammmonium compound have?

Answer 3

a long hydrocarbon chain and a positively charged organic group,, so they form cations

Question 4

What happens to wet hair?

Answer 4

pick up negative charges on their surface

Question 5

Why are quarternary ammonium ions used?

Answer 5

positive charges of the cations attract them to wet surface and form a coating that prevents the build up of static electricity

this keeps surface smooth

also called cationic sufacecant because in aqueous solution the ions cluster with their charged ends in the water and their hydrocarbon tails on the surface