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I have been trying to figure out the reason why amines have a lower boiling point than alcohols but amides have a higher boiling point than carboxylic acids. Looking at hydrogen bond donors and acceptors, it appears that an alcohol has 2 acceptors (the two lone pairs on oxygen) and 1 donor (the...

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out the structural formula which would correspond to these two spectra. I cannot seem to reason why there would be 4H within one of the proton environments. Can anyone suggest something that I am missing? thank you

Quick question regarding some reactions, how can you form a primary alcohol from an alkene? eg form 1-propanol from propene. My understanding is that if you were to hydrate propene in the presence of dilute H2SO4 the hydroxyl group will add to the second carbon (by Markovnikov's rule, at least...