Methylamine Properties

Description

Methylamine is the organic compound. This colourless gas is a derivative of ammonia, where in one H atom is replaced by a methyl group. It is the simplest primary amine. It has a strong odor similar to fish. Methylamine is used as a building block for the synthesis of many other commercially available compounds. Representative commercially significant chemicals produced from methylamine include the pharmaceuticals ephedrine and theophylline, the pesticides carbofuran, carbaryl, and metham sodium, and the solvents N-methylformamide and N-methylpyrrolidone. The preparation of some surfactants and photographic developers require methylamine as a building block. Liquid methylamine can be used as a solvent analogous to liquid ammonia. It can also be used for scavenging H₂S from hydrocarbon in refining applications.