Can carbon bind to a variety of functional groups even when nitrogen is bound to one of them?

Question

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Answer 1

For all practical purposes, it can. Most likely, the functional group associated with Nitrogen is amino, or amine, which is a nitrogen singly bonded to a carbon, and the nitrogen has two hydrogenatoms singly bonded to it. This leaves 3 single bonds open for Carbon, potentially allowing three more functional groups (alcohol, aldohyde, thiol), to bind to the lone carbon.

Or, another carbon could bind to the first carbon and then a number of isomers could occur, resulting in more possible functional groups.

so yes.

Answer 2

A carbon atom can form bonds with 4 different other atoms, including nitrogen.

Answer 3

yes