suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.
My book doesn't cover this at all, what exactly are we supposed to talk about? I checked the mark scheme, it says something about 1-chlorobutane being a primary halogenoalkane?
suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.
My book doesn't cover this at all, what exactly are we supposed to talk about? I checked the mark scheme, it says something about 1-chlorobutane being a primary halogenoalkane?
Primary halogenoalkanes typically react by an Sn2 mechanism and Tertiary halogenalkanes typically react by an Sn1 mechanism.
suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.
My book doesn't cover this at all, what exactly are we supposed to talk about? I checked the mark scheme, it says something about 1-chlorobutane being a primary halogenoalkane?
suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.
My book doesn't cover this at all, what exactly are we supposed to talk about? I checked the mark scheme, it says something about 1-chlorobutane being a primary halogenoalkane?
What are we comparing it to? Is it compared to a tertiary halogenoalkane, or to reacting with NaOH (or KOH) instead of water, etc?
If it is the former then clownfish is right and it's due to the relative stabilities of the intermediate carbocations that would be produced.
suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.
My book doesn't cover this at all, what exactly are we supposed to talk about? I checked the mark scheme, it says something about 1-chlorobutane being a primary halogenoalkane?
OK here's a run through of nucleophilic substitution mechanisms.