Identify the highest soluble amine from the following.

Primary amine

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Secondary amine.

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Tertiary amine

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none of these

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Solution

The correct option is D Primary amine
The highest soluble amine would be primary amine, because it can form more H-bonds with water since $1^{o}$ amine have $- N H_{2}$ (2 Hydrogen) for H-bonding which decreases as we move on to secondary or tertiary amine.

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