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What is the product of this reaction?

Juandro
in Organic Chemistry

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I need to know the product of the reaction of triethylamine + FeCl3, I found this example with aniline.

3 C6H5NH2 + FeCl3 = (C6H5NH)3Fe + 3HCl

But I don't know if that is right and I how would it be with triethylamine being a tertiary amine

thinking maybe, if the nitrogen in triethylamine was protonated, it would be + charged, facilitating a chloride atom from FeCl3 to bind to the + nitrogen...I guess that's a start.. :mellow:

If the nitrogen were protonated, it would not have a lone pair of electrons to coordinate to the iron ion.

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