Can anyone outline the mechanism steps or show them please?
Backside attack of the brominated carbon by the hydroxide nucleophile, with a transition state in which both Br and OH are bonded to the carbon. Bromide is eliminated.
Nucleophile OH: attacks carbon, due to slightly positive charge (Curly arrow from lone pair to carbon), C-Br bond's pair "Jumps" onto the bromine breaking the bond to form Br: thus leaving propan-1-ol (Curly arrow from C-Br bond to Br atom).
Nucleophile OH: attacks carbon, due to slightly positive charge (Curly arrow from lone pair to carbon), C-Br bond's pair "Jumps" onto the bromine breaking the bond to form Br: thus leaving propan-1-ol (Curly arrow from C-Br bond to Br atom).
Conditions: Under reflux
Hydroxide, not a hydroxy radical and Bromide, not a Bromine radical. Charges are important.
Backside attack of the brominated carbon by the hydroxide nucleophile, with a transition state in which both Br and OH are bonded to the carbon. Bromide is eliminated.
Nucleophile OH: attacks carbon, due to slightly positive charge (Curly arrow from lone pair to carbon), C-Br bond's pair "Jumps" onto the bromine breaking the bond to form Br: thus leaving propan-1-ol (Curly arrow from C-Br bond to Br atom).
Thanks guys! I did a mechanism here is it correct?
It's not incorrect, but here's some tips for good practice:
-Get used to writing bonds as dashes and wedges -When drawing a transition state, write it in square brackets with a sort of hash tag at the top right (where the charge normally would be for a complex ion) -This is a bit nitpicky, but when drawing the TS make sure it makes a Y shape - in your drawing, the H's are completely trans to each other and the C2H5 is cis to both, which could be interpreted wrong (your lack of dashes and wedges don't help)
It's not incorrect, but here's some tips for good practice:
-Get used to writing bonds as dashes and wedges -When drawing a transition state, write it in square brackets with a sort of hash tag at the top right (where the charge normally would be for a complex ion) -This is a bit nitpicky, but when drawing the TS make sure it makes a Y shape - in your drawing, the H's are completely trans to each other and the C2H5 is cis to both, which could be interpreted wrong (your lack of dashes and wedges don't help)
Here's an illustration:
thanks! may I know the significance of the hash like sign outside the square bracket?