Similarly, a primary alkyl halide will prefer a SN2 reaction, a secondary halide- SN2 or
elimination depending upon the strength of base/nucleophile and a tertiary halide- SN1 or
elimination depending upon the stability of carbocation or the more substituted alkene Elimination versus substitution
Elimination versus substitution
Elimination versus substitution
Elimination versus substitution
Elimination versus substitution
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181 Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
Victor Grignard had a strange start in academic life for a chemist - he
took a maths degree When he eventually switched to chemistry, it was
not to the mathematical province of physical chemistry but to organic
chemistry While attempting to find an efficient catalyst for the process
of methylation, he noted that Zn in diethyl ether had been used for this
purpose and wondered whether the Mg/ether combination might be
successful