Reaction of epoxides with nucleophiles under basic conditions
Description: When epoxides are treated with negatively charged nucleophiles, they will add to the least substituted position of the epoxide in an SN2 reaction.
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Thanks a lot . I was wondering how this reaction takes place.
In the second stage of the mechanism its should be H-OH2