Nucleophilic substitution of 1-bromobutane mechanism (aqueous)

This is how i wrote out the mechanism when doing the question, however the intermediate state is slightly different to the answers and i was wondering if it mattered or not.

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Reply 1

callphd

No it shouldn't matter at this level, the OH- nucleophile performs a backside attack due to sterics so their answer is more correct, however the geometry hasnt been assigned so i doubt it would matter - it becomes more important when youre considering geometry/sterics

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Reply 2

Dell PC 2

Original post by callphd

No it shouldn't matter at this level, the OH- nucleophile performs a backside attack due to sterics so their answer is correct more correct, however the geometry hasnt been assigned so i doubt it would matter - it becomes more important when youre considering geometry/sterics