Identifying Where Substitution and Elimination Reactions Happen
Identifying Carbons Where Substitution and Elimination Reactions Can Take Place Substitution and elimination reactions need a leaving group in order for them to occur. Look
Read moreIdentifying Carbons Where Substitution and Elimination Reactions Can Take Place Substitution and elimination reactions need a leaving group in order for them to occur. Look
Read moreThe Role of The Substrate In Substitution & Elimination Reaction: SN2 vs E1/SN1 Deciding whether a reaction is SN1/SN2/E1/E2 first of all requires understanding the
Read moreRearrangement Reactions: Substitution Reactions With Hydride Shifts In this post we cover several examples of reactions where carbocations form… but then a funny thing happens.
Read moreMaking Alkyl Halides From Alcohols In today’s post we show that treating alcohols with HCl, HBr, or HI (which all fall under the catch-all term
Read moreSN1 / SN2 / E1 / E2 The Nucleophile / Base This article assumes you understand the mechanisms of the SN1/SN2/E1 and E2 reactions. For
Read moreSN1 vs E1, and SN2 vs. E2: The Role Of Heat This article assumes you understand the mechanisms of the SN1/SN2/E1 and E2 reactions. For
Read moreThe Quick N’ Dirty Guide To SN1/SN2/E1/E2 Reactions: The Role of Solvent Let’s continue with our Quick N Dirty guide to SN1/SN2/E1/E2 – a quick
Read moreThe Quick N’ Dirty Guide To SN1/SN2/E1/E2 : Putting It All Together The previous several posts dealt with an approach to solving substitution and elimination
Read moreA Tale of Two Elimination Reaction Patterns Like I said in the introduction to substitution reactions, organic chemistry is an empirical, experimental science. We make
Read moreElimination Reactions (E1) That Occur With Rearrangements – Hydride Or Alkyl Shifts Where there are carbocations (see last post), rearrangement reactions are never far behind.
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