distinguish between reductive and trans amination?
 

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• Amination is the process of introducing an amine group to a molecule.
• Reductive amination and transamination are two forms of amination.
• However, these two processes differ from each other according to the pathway that they introduce the amine group.
• Therefore, the key difference between reductive amination and transamination is that the reductive amination is the conversion of a carbonyl group into an amine group.
• Whereas the transamination is the transfer of an amine group from one molecule to another.
• Moreover, we can also find a difference between reductive amination and transamination in the intermediates formed by the two processes.
• That is, the reductive amination gives an imine while transamination gives an alpha-keto acid as the intermediate.

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