Organic Chemistry Synthesis of Tert Butyl Chloride Labs & Practice Problems
CHEM 2010Laboratory SN1 Synthesis of tert-Butyl Chloride Alkyl halides can be prepared from their corresponding alcohols via a substitution reaction. The mechanism of these substitution reactions are labeled as SN1 (substitution, nucleophilic, unimolecular) and SN2 (substitution, nucleophilic, bimolecular). Tertiary alcohols follow the SN1 route, primary alcohols follow the SN2 route, and secondary alcohols can follow either path. This experiment focuses on the SN1 reaction between […]