NEET Amines PYQs (2009-2024)

📚 Chapter Overview

Amines form a crucial chapter in NEET organic chemistry, testing students’ understanding of nitrogen-containing organic compounds, basicity trends, and diazonium chemistry. With 15-20 questions appearing over 15 years, this chapter emphasizes preparation methods, distinguishing tests, and electrophilic aromatic substitution involving amines.

📊 Topic Distribution Analysis

Question Distribution (2009-2024)

📈 Year-wise Question Breakdown:
- Classification and Structure: 5-7 questions
- Basicity Trends: 12-15 questions
- Preparation Methods: 10-12 questions
- Chemical Reactions: 15-18 questions
- Diazonium Salts: 12-15 questions
- Distinguishing Tests: 8-10 questions
- Aromatic Substitution: 10-12 questions

🎯 Average Questions Per Year:
- Total: 4-6 questions/year
- Easy: 1-2 questions/year
- Medium: 2-3 questions/year
- Hard: 1-2 questions/year

Difficulty Level Distribution

📊 Difficulty Breakdown:
Easy Questions (30%):
- Basic classification and properties
- Simple preparation methods
- Direct distinguishing tests

Medium Questions (55%):
- Basicity trend analysis
- Reaction mechanism understanding
- Diazonium salt reactions

Hard Questions (15%):
- Multi-step synthesis problems
- Complex basicity comparisons
- Integration with other concepts

🔍 Key Concepts Analysis

1. Classification and Structure

NEET Pattern Analysis (2009-2024)

📊 Classification Question Types:
1. **Primary, Secondary, Tertiary**: 8-10 questions
2. **Aliphatic vs Aromatic**: 4-6 questions
3. **Structure Identification**: 6-8 questions
4. **IUPAC Nomenclature**: 5-7 questions
5. **Isomerism in Amines**: 4-6 questions

🎯 Frequently Asked Patterns:
- Identifying type of amine from structure
- Distinguishing between aliphatic and aromatic amines
- Understanding structure-property relationships
- IUPAC naming of complex amines

⚡ Common NEET Question Formats:
Q1: Identify primary/secondary/tertiary amine
Q2: Compare basicity of different amines
Q3: Name given amine structure
Q4: Identify isomeric relationships

Classification of Amines

📋 **Based on Number of Alkyl Groups:**

1. **Primary Amines (1°):**
   - One alkyl/aryl group attached to nitrogen
   - Formula: R-NH₂ or Ar-NH₂
   - Example: CH₃NH₂ (methylamine)

2. **Secondary Amines (2°):**
   - Two alkyl/aryl groups attached to nitrogen
   - Formula: R₂NH or R-NH-R' or Ar₂NH
   - Example: (CH₃)₂NH (dimethylamine)

3. **Tertiary Amines (3°):**
   - Three alkyl/aryl groups attached to nitrogen
   - Formula: R₃N or Ar₃N
   - Example: (CH₃)₃N (trimethylamine)

📋 **Based on Nature of Groups:**
- **Aliphatic Amines**: Alkyl groups attached to N
- **Aromatic Amines**: Aryl groups attached to N
- **Mixed Amines**: Both alkyl and aryl groups

Structural Features

📐 **Geometry of Amines:**
- Nitrogen: sp³ hybridization
- Trigonal pyramidal geometry
- Lone pair on nitrogen
- Bond angle ~107° (less than tetrahedral)

📊 **Physical Properties:**
- Lower boiling points than alcohols (weaker H-bonding)
- Fishy odor for low molecular weight amines
- Soluble in water (H-bond formation)
- Basic compounds (lone pair on N)

Sample NEET Questions

📝 **NEET 2023 Question:**
Q: Which of the following is a secondary amine?
   (a) CH₃NH₂
   (b) (CH₃)₂NH
   (c) (CH₃)₃N
   (d) C₆H₅NH₂

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Check number of carbon groups attached to nitrogen
Step 2: CH₃NH₂: One CH₃ group = primary ❌
Step 3: (CH₃)₂NH: Two CH₃ groups = secondary ✅
Step 4: (CH₃)₃N: Three CH₃ groups = tertiary ❌
Step 5: C₆H₅NH₂: One C₆H₅ group = primary ❌
✅ **Answer: (b) (CH₃)₂NH**

📝 **NEET 2022 Question:**
Q: IUPAC name of CH₃CH(NH₂)CH₃ is:
   (a) 1-aminopropane
   (b) 2-aminopropane
   (c) Propan-1-amine
   (d) Propan-2-amine

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Longest chain = 3 carbons (propane)
Step 2: Number from end giving lowest number to NH₂
Step 3: NH₂ at carbon-2
Step 4: IUPAC name = propan-2-amine
✅ **Answer: (d) Propan-2-amine**

2. Basicity Trends

NEET Pattern Analysis

📊 Basicity Question Types:
1. **Aliphatic vs Aromatic**: 8-10 questions
2. **Effect of Substituents**: 10-12 questions
3. **Electronic Effects**: 8-10 questions
4. **Solvent Effects**: 4-6 questions
5. **Comparative Basicity**: 10-12 questions

🎯 High-Yield Concepts:
- Electron-donating groups increase basicity
- Electron-withdrawing groups decrease basicity
- Aromatic amines less basic than aliphatic
- Resonance effects in aromatic amines

⚡ Success Rate: 40-45% (Challenging area)

Basicity Fundamentals

📊 **Basicity Order in Gas Phase:**
(CH₃)₃N > (CH₃)₂NH > CH₃NH₂ > NH₃

📊 **Basicity Order in Aqueous Solution:**
(CH₃)₂NH > CH₃NH₂ > (CH₃)₃N > NH₃

📋 **Reasons for Difference:**
- **Gas phase**: Only inductive effects considered
- **Aqueous solution**: Solvation effects and steric hindrance matter
- **Tertiary amines**: Poorly solvated in water due to steric hindrance

Factors Affecting Basicity

⚡ **1. Electronic Effects:**

**Electron-Donating Groups (+I, +R):**
- Increase electron density on nitrogen
- Increase basicity
- Examples: -CH₃, -OCH₃, -NH₂

**Electron-Withdrawing Groups (-I, -R):**
- Decrease electron density on nitrogen
- Decrease basicity
- Examples: -NO₂, -CN, -CF₃, -Cl

⚡ **2. Resonance Effects:**
- Delocalization of lone pair decreases basicity
- Aromatic amines: lone pair participates in resonance
- Aliphatic amines: localized lone pair

⚡ **3. Hybridization Effects:**
- sp³ N: More basic (lone pair in sp³ orbital)
- sp² N: Less basic (lone pair in sp² orbital)
- sp N: Least basic (lone pair in sp orbital)

Aromatic vs Aliphatic Amines

📊 **Basicity Comparison:**
Aliphatic amines > Aromatic amines

📋 **Reasons:**
1. **Resonance in Aromatic Amines:**
   - Lone pair on N participates in ring conjugation
   - Decreases availability for protonation
   - Example: Aniline resonance structures

2. **Solvation Effects:**
   - Aliphatic amines better solvated in water
   - Better stabilization of conjugate acid

📊 **pKb Values:**
- Methylamine: 3.36
- Aniline: 9.34
- Lower pKb = stronger base

Sample NEET Questions

📝 **NEET 2024 Question:**
Q: Arrange the following in decreasing order of basicity:
   (i) C₆H₅NH₂
   (ii) CH₃NHCH₃
   (iii) (CH₃)₃N
   (iv) NH₃

   (a) (ii) > (iii) > (iv) > (i)
   (b) (iii) > (ii) > (iv) > (i)
   (c) (ii) > (iv) > (iii) > (i)
   (d) (iii) > (ii) > (i) > (iv)

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Consider basicity factors
Step 2: Aromatic amine (i) least basic due to resonance
Step 3: Among aliphatic amines, consider solvation
Step 4: Secondary amine (ii) most basic (good solvation)
Step 5: Tertiary amine (iii) less basic (poor solvation)
Step 6: NH₃ (iv) moderate basicity
Step 7: Order: (ii) > (iii) > (iv) > (i)
✅ **Answer: (a) (ii) > (iii) > (iv) > (i)**

📝 **NEET 2023 Question:**
Q: Which of the following is the strongest base?
   (a) Aniline
   (b) p-nitroaniline
   (c) p-methoxyaniline
   (d) Benzylamine

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Check electronic effects of substituents
Step 2: Aniline: Reference aromatic amine
Step 3: p-nitroaniline: NO₂ is electron-withdrawing (-R, -I) → decreases basicity
Step 4: p-methoxyaniline: OCH₃ is electron-donating (+R) → increases basicity
Step 5: Benzylamine: Aliphatic amine, no resonance effects
Step 6: Benzylamine (aliphatic) > p-methoxyaniline > aniline > p-nitroaniline
✅ **Answer: (d) Benzylamine**

3. Preparation Methods

NEET Pattern Analysis

📊 Preparation Methods Distribution:
1. **Reduction Methods**: 8-10 questions
2. **Gabriel Phthalimide Synthesis**: 6-8 questions
3. **Hoffmann Bromamide**: 4-6 questions
4. **From Alkyl Halides**: 5-7 questions
5. **From Nitriles**: 4-6 questions
6. **Special Methods**: 3-5 questions

🎯 High-Yield Methods:
- Reduction of nitro compounds
- Gabriel synthesis (for primary amines)
- Hoffmann degradation
- Reaction of alkyl halides with ammonia

Important Preparation Methods

🔄 **1. Reduction of Nitro Compounds:**
   Ar-NO₂ → Ar-NH₂

📋 **Reducing Agents:**
- Fe/HCl: Catalytic reduction
- Sn/HCl: For aromatic nitro compounds
- H₂/Pd-C: Catalytic hydrogenation
- Na/NH₃: Birch reduction conditions

🔄 **2. Gabriel Phthalimide Synthesis:**
   Phthalimide + KOH → Potassium phthalimide
   Potassium phthalimide + R-X → N-alkylphthalimide
   N-alkylphthalimide + Hydrazine → Primary amine + Phthalhydrazide

📋 **Advantages:**
- Gives only primary amines
- No over-alkylation
- Good yield

🔄 **3. Hoffmann Bromamide Degradation:**
   R-CO-NH₂ + Br₂ + 4NaOH → R-NH₂ + Na₂CO₃ + 2NaBr + 2H₂O

📋 **Key Points:**
- One carbon atom lost
- Amide → Amine with one less carbon
- For preparing primary amines from amides

Other Methods

🔄 **4. From Alkyl Halides:**
   R-X + NH₃ → R-NH₂ + HX
   R-NH₂ + R-X → R₂NH + HX
   R₂NH + R-X → R₃N + HX

📋 **Problems:**
- Mixture of primary, secondary, tertiary amines
- Excess NH₃ needed for primary amine

🔄 **5. From Nitriles:**
   R-CN + 4[H] → R-CH₂NH₂

📋 **Reducing Agents:**
- LiAlH₄: Complete reduction
- H₂/Ni: Catalytic hydrogenation
- NaBH₄: Does not reduce nitriles

🔄 **6. Schmidt Reaction:**
   R-COOH + HN₃ + H₂SO₄ → R-NH₂ + CO₂ + N₂

Sample NEET Questions

📝 **NEET 2024 Question:**
Q: Which method is best for preparing pure primary amine from alkyl halide?
   (a) Reaction with excess NH₃
   (b) Gabriel synthesis
   (c) Hoffmann degradation
   (d) Reduction of nitrile

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Look for method giving only primary amine
Step 2: Excess NH₃ gives mixture ❌
Step 3: Gabriel synthesis gives only primary amine ✅
Step 4: Hoffmann needs amide first ❌
Step 5: Reduction of nitrile gives primary amine ✅
Step 6: Gabriel synthesis is specifically for this purpose
✅ **Answer: (b) Gabriel synthesis**

📝 **NEET 2023 Question:**
Q: Product of Hoffmann bromamide degradation of propanamide:
   (a) Ethylamine
   (b) Propylamine
   (c) Methylamine
   (d) Ammonia

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Hoffmann degradation removes one carbon
Step 2: Propanamide (CH₃CH₂CONH₂) → CH₃CH₂NH₂
Step 3: Ethylamine formed (2 carbon atoms)
Step 4: One carbon less than starting amide
✅ **Answer: (a) Ethylamine**

4. Diazonium Salts

NEET Pattern Analysis

📊 Diazonium Salt Question Types:
1. **Preparation**: 8-10 questions
2. **Reactions**: 15-18 questions
3. **Coupling Reactions**: 6-8 questions
4. **Sandmeyer Reactions**: 8-10 questions
5. **Applications**: 6-8 questions

🎯 Critical Concepts:
- Stability of aryl diazonium salts
- Sandmeyer reaction patterns
- Coupling reactions
- Replacement reactions

⚡ Success Rate: 45-50% (Important area)

Diazonium Salt Preparation

🔄 **Preparation of Aryl Diazonium Salts:**
   Ar-NH₂ + NaNO₂ + 2HCl → Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + 2H₂O + NaCl

📋 **Conditions:**
- Temperature: 0-5°C
- Acidic medium (HCl)
- Sodium nitrite added slowly
- Freshly prepared diazonium salts

📋 **Stability:**
- Aryl diazonium salts: Stable at low temperature
- Alkyl diazonium salts: Unstable, decompose immediately

Important Reactions of Diazonium Salts

🔄 **1. Sandmeyer Reactions:**

**Replacement with Halides:**
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + CuCl → Ar-Cl + N₂
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + CuBr → Ar-Br + N₂
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + CuCN → Ar-CN + N₂

**Replacement with Hydroxyl:**
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + H₂O → Ar-OH + N₂ + HCl

**Replacement with Hydrogen:**
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + SnCl₂ + HCl → Ar-H + N₂ + SnCl₄

🔄 **2. Coupling Reactions:**
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + Ar'-OH (alkaline) → Ar-N=N-Ar' (azo compound)
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + Ar'-NH₂ (acidic) → Ar-N=N-Ar' (azo compound)

🔄 **3. Replacement with Other Groups:**
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + H₂SO₃ → Ar-SO₃H + N₂ + HCl
Ar-N₂⁺Cl⁻ + H₃PO₄ → Ar-PO₃H₂ + N₂ + HCl

Sample NEET Questions

📝 **NEET 2024 Question:**
Q: Product formed when benzenediazonium chloride reacts with CuBr:
   (a) Bromobenzene
   (b) Phenol
   (c) Aniline
   (d) Benzene

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Identify reaction: Diazonium salt + CuX (Sandmeyer)
Step 2: Benzenediazonium chloride + CuBr → Bromobenzene
Step 3: N₂ gas liberated
Step 4: Replacement of N₂⁺ group with Br⁻
✅ **Answer: (a) Bromobenzene**

📝 **NEET 2023 Question:**
Q: Which reaction is used to prepare phenol from aniline?
   (a) Gabriel synthesis
   (b) Sandmeyer reaction
   (c) Hoffmann degradation
   (d) Diazotization followed by hydrolysis

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Aniline → Phenol requires replacement of NH₂ with OH
Step 2: Diazotization: C₆H₅NH₂ + NaNO₂ + HCl → C₆H₅N₂⁺Cl⁻
Step 3: Hydrolysis: C₆H₅N₂⁺Cl⁻ + H₂O → C₆H₅OH + N₂ + HCl
Step 4: This is standard preparation method
✅ **Answer: (d) Diazotization followed by hydrolysis**

5. Distinguishing Tests

NEET Pattern Analysis

📊 Distinguishing Tests Distribution:
1. **Hinsberg's Test**: 8-10 questions
2. **Acid-Base Reactions**: 6-8 questions
3. **Ninhydrin Test**: 4-6 questions
4. **Acetylation Test**: 4-6 questions
5. **Special Tests**: 5-7 questions

🎯 High-Yield Tests:
- Hinsberg's test for amine classification
- Acylation reactions
- Tests for primary vs secondary amines

Hinsberg’s Test

🧪 **Reagent**: Benzenesulfonyl chloride (C₆H₅SO₂Cl)

📋 **Reaction Patterns:**

**Primary Amines:**
R-NH₂ + C₆H₅SO₂Cl → R-NH-SO₂-C₆H₅ + HCl
(Soluble in alkali)

**Secondary Amines:**
R₂NH + C₆H₅SO₂Cl → R₂N-SO₂-C₆H₅ + HCl
(Insoluble in alkali)

**Tertiary Amines:**
R₃N + C₆H₅SO₂Cl → No reaction

Sample NEET Questions

📝 **NEET 2023 Question:**
Q: Which amine gives soluble product in alkali after Hinsberg's test?
   (a) Dimethylamine
   (b) Trimethylamine
   (c) Aniline
   (d) N-methylaniline

🔍 **Solution:**
Step 1: Hinsberg's test soluble product = primary amine
Step 2: Dimethylamine = secondary ❌
Step 3: Trimethylamine = tertiary ❌
Step 4: Aniline = primary ✅
Step 5: N-methylaniline = secondary ❌
✅ **Answer: (c) Aniline**

📈 Year-wise Question Analysis

Recent Trends (2017-2024)

📊 **Focus Area Evolution:**
2017-2019: Basic preparation methods and properties
2020-2021: Complex basicity trend analysis
2022-2023: Diazonium salt reactions and applications
2024: Integration with other concepts

📈 **Question Complexity Progression:**
- Single concept: 50% → 35%
- Multiple concepts: 40% → 55%
- Application-based: 15% → 30%

🎯 High-Yield Points for NEET

Must-Remember Concepts

📋 **Basicity Order (Aqueous):**
(CH₃)₂NH > CH₃NH₂ > (CH₃)₃N > NH₃ > C₆H₅NH₂

📋 **Important Preparation Methods:**
- Gabriel synthesis: Primary amines only
- Hoffmann degradation: Amide → Amine (1 C less)
- Reduction: Nitro → Amine
- Alkyl halide + NH₃: Mixture of amines

📋 **Diazonium Salt Reactions:**
- Sandmeyer: Replace N₂⁺ with Cl⁻, Br⁻, CN⁻
- Gattermann: Replace N₂⁺ with H
- Hydrolysis: Replace N₂⁺ with OH⁻
- Coupling: Form azo compounds

📋 **Hinsberg's Test Results:**
Primary amine: Soluble in alkali
Secondary amine: Insoluble in alkali
Tertiary amine: No reaction

⚠️ Common Mistakes & Solutions

Frequent Errors

🚨 **Top 5 Mistakes:**
1. **Basicity order confusion**: Ignoring solvation effects
2. **Diazonium reactions**: Wrong replacement products
3. **Preparation methods**: Wrong method selection
4. **Test results**: Hinsberg's test confusion
5. **Resonance effects**: Forgetting aromatic amine delocalization

💡 **Solution Strategies:**
- Consider both electronic and solvation effects
- Memorize Sandmeyer reaction patterns
- Understand method limitations and advantages
- Create test comparison tables
- Draw resonance structures for aromatic amines

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