Question

Organic compounds that contain nitrogen are usually acidic.

A) True

B)False

Answer 1

False.

Organic compounds can have nitrogen in varoius functional groups like nitro(-NO₂) , amino(NH₂) or imine or amide .

When the nitrogen is in the nitro group, there is a possibility that the alpha hydrogen is acidic due to strong electron withdrawing capacity of nitro group.

But if the nitroen is a part of amino group, most of the times the organic compound is basic rather than acidc.

If it were a part of amide frunctional group. the compound is neutral.

If the nitrogen is as imine or imide , again the compound may be acidic.

thus we cannot generalise that organic compounds with nitrogen are acidic.