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Organic Chemistry Supplement Alkyl Halides React with Nucleophiles and Bases. Alkyl halides are polarized at the carbon-halide bond, making the carbon electrophilic Nucleophiles will replace the halide in C-X bonds of many alkyl halides(reaction as Lewis base)
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Organic Chemistry SupplementAlkyl Halides React with Nucleophiles and Bases • Alkyl halides are polarized at the carbon-halide bond, making the carbon electrophilic • Nucleophiles will replace the halide in C-X bonds of many alkyl halides(reaction as Lewis base) • Nucleophiles that are Brønsted bases produce elimination
11.2 The SN2 Reaction • Reaction is with inversion at reacting center • Follows second order reaction kinetics • Ingold nomenclature to describe characteristic step: • S=substitution • N (subscript) = nucleophilic • 2 = both nucleophile and substrate in characteristic step (bimolecular)
SN2 Transition State • The transition state of an SN2 reaction has a planar arrangement of the carbon atom and the remaining three groups
Stereochemistry of SN1 Reaction • The planar intermediate leads to loss of chirality • A free carbocation is achiral • Product is racemic or has some inversion
11.6 Biological Substitution Reactions • SN1 and SN2 reactions are well known in biological chemistry • Unlike what happens in the laboratory, substrate in biological substitutions is often organodiphosphate rather than an alkyl halide
11.8 The E2 Reaction and the Deuterium Isotope Effect • A proton is transferred to base as leaving group begins to depart • Transition state combines leaving of X and transfer of H • Product alkene forms stereospecifically
This can be extended to Phosphoanhydride bonds found in ATP 5