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13.2     Give one chemical test to distinguish between the following pairs of compounds.

                 (i) Methylamine and dimethylamine

                   

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Carbylamine test 

This test is used to distinguish between aliphatic and aromatic primary amines on heating with chloroform (CHCl_{3}) and potassium hydroxide (KOH) gives isocyanides or carbylamines which has foul smelling. two degree and 3-degree amines do not show this reaction.

Here methylamine is primary and dimethylamine is a secondary amine.

first one is 1-degree and second one is 2-degree

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