Fatty amine

in chemistry, a fatty amine is any amine attached to a hydrocarbon chain of eight or more carbon atoms in length. These compounds are classified as oleochemicals. More commonly fatty amines are derived from C12-C18 hydrocarbons, which in turn are derived from the more abundant fatty acids. They are often mixtures. Commercially important members include coco amine, oleylamine, tallow amine, and soya amine. Some applications of these compounds are in fabric softeners, froth flotation agents (purification of ores), and corrosion inhibitors. They are the basis for a variety of cosmetic formulations.

Production and reactions

Fatty amines are commonly prepared from fatty acids; which are themselves obtained from natural sources, typically seed-oils. The overall reaction is sometimes referred to as the Nitrile Process and begins with a reaction between the fatty acid and ammonia at high temperature (>250 °C) and in the presence of a metal oxide catalyst (e.g., alumina or zinc oxide) to give the fatty nitrile.

Fatty

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Fatty acid

In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated. Most naturally occurring fatty acids have an unbranched chain of an even number of carbon atoms, from 4 to 28. Fatty acids are usually derived from triglycerides or phospholipids. Fatty acids are important sources of fuel because, when metabolized, they yield large quantities of ATP. Many cell types can use either glucose or fatty acids for this purpose. Long-chain fatty acids cannot cross the blood–brain barrier and so cannot be used as fuel by the cells of the central nervous system; but medium-chain fatty acids octanoic acid and heptanoic acid can be used, in addition to glucose and ketone bodies.

Types of fatty acids

Fatty acids that have carbon–carbon double bonds are known as unsaturated. Fatty acids without double bonds are known as saturated. They differ in length as well.

Length of free fatty acid chains

Fatty acid chains differ by length, often categorized as short to very long.

Amine

In organic chemistry, amines (US: /əˈmiːnz/ or /ˈæminz/, UK: /əˈmiːnz/, /ˈæmɪnz/ or /ˈeɪminz/) are compounds and functional groups that contain a basic nitrogen atom with a lone pair. Amines are formally derivatives of ammonia, wherein one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by a substituent such as an alkyl or aryl group. (These may respectively be called alkylamines and arylamines; amines in which both types of substituent are attached to one nitrogen atom may be called alkylarylamines.) Important amines include amino acids, biogenic amines, trimethylamine, and aniline; see Category:Amines for a list of amines. Inorganic derivatives of ammonia are also called amines, such as chloramine (NClH₂); see Category:Inorganic amines.

Compounds with a nitrogen atom attached to a carbonyl group, thus having the structure R–CO–NR′R″, are called amides and have different chemical properties from amines.

Classes of amines

An aliphatic amine has no aromatic ring attached directly to the nitrogen atom.Aromatic amines have the nitrogen atom connected to an aromatic ring as in the various anilines. The aromatic ring decreases the alkalinity of the amine, depending on its substituents. The presence of an amine group strongly increases the reactivity of the aromatic ring, due to an electron-donating effect.

Amine (magazine)

Amine is a Danish online magazine for women. The magazine focuses on fashion, love, wellness, work-life, career, clothing and trends. Soon after the website launched in the beginning of 2008, it had already beaten the existing players in the market, counting well-known brands such as Woman, Oestrogen and the woman site from the Danish newspaper BT.

Even though Amine hands away its content freely to the public, it manages to publish an extensive amount of articles and answer questions from a very diverse userbase. In comparison to its competitors Amine.dk does not have a hardcopy counterpart, and are not sold in stores as most of its competitors are.

The people behind

In 2008 the magazine had 8 editors, 10 writers and a wide variety of freelance columnists. The original idea came by chief editor Pernille Post Lundsgaard back in November 2007. During the next couple of months she gathered a team of experts within sexology, coaching, fashion and trends. Amine teamed up and launched their new website together with the Danish web veteran Jubii (part of Lycos Europe) in February 2008, and took over from the Benjamin Media owned magazine Woman as its new content partner.

Amine (disambiguation)

Amine or Amino may refer to:

Proper name

Amine is a male given, middle or last name with Arabic origin. It's a spelling variation (as in French) on amīn ‘trustworthy’, ‘faithful’, ‘honest’.

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