Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function
Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function
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ISBN: 9781319079451
Author: K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil E. Schore
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 2, Problem 42P
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Interpretation: Three discrete steps shown for conversion of alcohol to haloalkane should be drawn with curved arrows.

Concept introduction: Alcohol to haloalkane conversion is essentially unimolecular nucleophilic substitution. These substitutions proceed via carbocation formation that occurs in a slow step; followed by a rapid step that involves attack of nucleophile to carbocation center. The products obtained are racemic in the sense that each of the two enantiomers is formed in equal amounts. The general pathway of such substitution is illustrated as follows:

  Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function, Chapter 2, Problem 42P

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