Pushing Electrons
Pushing Electrons
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Author: Weeks, Daniel P.
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Chapter 3, Problem 25EQ
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The bond making and breaking in the given species is to be represented.

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Molecules also show a simultaneous bond making and breaking. This can be illustrated nicely in the familiar SN2 reaction. A negatively charged nucleophile approaches a carbon atom having a leaving group in a direction anti to the leaving group. The pushable electrons are possessed by the nucleophile and the receptor is the carbon atom. The products are a compound having a C-Nu bond and the anion of the leaving group. Thus, Nu has been substituted for L.

Pushing Electrons, Chapter 3, Problem 25EQ , additional homework tip  1

But Carbon need not always be the center of this type of reaction. The removal of an acidic proton from an organic compound by a base is a common occurrence.

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