Chapter 1, Problem 25EQ

The skeleton of benzyldimethylamine is

The number of available valence electrons is as follows: from the benzyl group, ___; from each of two methyl groups, ___; and, from the nitrogen atom, ___, for a total of ___. Filling in the skeleton with single bonds gives

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and adding the appropriate unshared pair gives

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The number of electrons in the functional group of this structure is ___, and the structure is (correct, incorrect).