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 moreSecondary Alkyl Halides With Strongly Basic Nucleophiles. The “Ask Your Instructor” Edition In the previous four articles in this series, we covered how to identify where
Read moreSN1/SN2/E1/E2 – Summarizing The Key Factors That Determine Whether A Reaction Will Be SN1, SN2, E1 or E2 In this article we walk through the
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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