Competitive Nucleophiles By: Doug Kruse Abstract: The competitive nucleophilic reaction of two nucleophiles, chloride and bromide ion with tert-butyl alcohol have been studied in this experiment. Nucleophilic substitution at the tertiary carbon to form a haloalkane was observed. During nucleophilic substitution, a nucleophile replaces a leaving group from a carbon atom, using its lone pair electrons to form a new bond to the carbon atom.1 Nucleophilic substitution can occur through two pathways namely SN1 and SN2 reaction mechanism. The former […]
