amides

• Amides are the products of reactions of acyl chlorides with ammonia and amines
• primary amide has 1 carbon atom bonded to N
• secondary amide has 2 carbon atom bonded to N
• tertiary amide has 3 carbon atoms bonded to N
• Amines can also undergo nucleophilic addition-elimination reactions with acyl chlorides to produce amides and N-substituted amides.
• Amides have a C=O group and an NHR group, where R is an alkyl group or a hydrogen atom.

  Primary amides have the structure RCONH2
• Secondary amides are also known as N-substituted amides. They have an additional carbon chain bonded to the nitrogen.