If you used LiAlH4 to reduce the imine product of a reaction between a ketone and primary amine, wouldn't you end up with a primary amine? This is what I put, but BR says it would make a secondary amine. It says the Nitrogen would gain a new sigma bond to hydrogen and lose the pi bond the the carbon. I don't see how this would produce a secondary amine, because wouldn't it just produce a NHCH(CH3)2 (primary amine)?
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