How to pronounce“enamine”in English

Now we have the enamine!

And then there are enamines, which contain a carbon-carbon double bond next to an amine.

We can use enamines for acylation reactions – which enolates do, too.

Used imines and enamines in carbon-carbon bond forming reactions In the next episode, we’ll look at how we can use amines to produce diazonium salts,

In both alkylation and acylation reactions with enamines, we reform an iminium ion through the course of the reaction, which we then hydrolyze in the final step to reform an aldehyde or ketone.

However, if we're making an enamine and start with a carbonyl group, a secondary amine, and acidic conditions, we can’t do this final deprotonation step.

Back in Episode 29, we talked about forming enamines by reacting an aldehyde or ketone with a secondary amine – which, as we mentioned earlier, has two alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen.