suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.
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suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different 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? -
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Re: suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.Primary halogenoalkanes typically react by an Sn2 mechanism and Tertiary halogenalkanes typically react by an Sn1 mechanism.(Original post by xXxiKillxXx)
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?
More information on here:
http://www.docbrown.info/page06/OrgM...ALOGENOALKANES -
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Re: suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.A different mechanism with respect to WHAT ?(Original post by xXxiKillxXx)
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?
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Re: suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.What are we comparing it to? Is it compared to a tertiary halogenoalkane, or to reacting with NaOH (or KOH) instead of water, etc?(Original post by xXxiKillxXx)
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?
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. -
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Re: suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.OK here's a run through of nucleophilic substitution mechanisms.(Original post by xXxiKillxXx)
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?
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Re: suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.Here yougo:(Original post by Ari Ben Canaan)
A different mechanism with respect to WHAT ?
Could you provide the full question ?
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocu...e_20090603.pdf
Question 20, page 11-13.
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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. -
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Re: suggest why 1-chlorobutane reacts with water via a different mechanism.Thank you, I'll look through that now.(Original post by charco)
OK here's a run through of nucleophilic substitution mechanisms.
