The Conjugate Acid Is A Better Leaving Group
…rate than they would otherwise. In the next post, let’s compare the SN1 and SN2 reactions. Next Post: Comparing The SN1 and SN2 Reactions Notes Related Articles Comparing the SN1…
Read more…rate than they would otherwise. In the next post, let’s compare the SN1 and SN2 reactions. Next Post: Comparing The SN1 and SN2 Reactions Notes Related Articles Comparing the SN1…
Read more…taken (for me to be in great shape for the exam I complete the reading 1 day before the test, the reading usually takes 6-10 hours). After reading through my…
Read more…I think it is: “how do the electrons move?” [I have a friendly disagreement with a lot of instructors on this point, since it’s common to claim that this is…
Read more…is distinct from the SN2 in three distinct ways. The reaction is fastest for tertiary alkyl halides and slowest for primary (and methyl) halides The rate law is unimolecular –…
Read more…charged anions, COT2− exists in isolation only… as a short-lived resonance state lying above neutral COT” “….Charge-compensating complexation of COT2−with two sodium cations results in a thermodynamically stable Na2COT compound”…
Read more…of “America’s Top TA” in an online contest sponsored by the learning company CengageBrain. This article in NJ.com should give you an idea why: In his first week as a…
Read more…serve as a counterpoint. In the second example, it is the tertiary substrate that reacts fastest, followed by the primary substrate. Interesting! 2. How Two Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Vary According…
Read more…Hamlin, Marcel Swart, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt ChemPhysChem 2018, 19 (11), 1315-1330 DOI: 1002/cphc.201701363 A more recent paper computationally examining the effects of various variables on SN2 reaction energetics. Solvolytic Displacement…
Read more…in general chemistry and physics – where many problems involve determining which equations to use, and simply “plugging” in the appropriate numbers – or biology, where success is largely a…
Read more…difficult organic chemistry is. I let myself get taken in by the horror stories around the first exam and did substantially worse on the first exam than I should have…
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