hypervalent_iodine

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! Moderator Note This being a science forum means you should probably keep the outside-of-the-doctor explanations elsewhere.

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It doesn’t give a particularly clear path to understanding the basis of the OP’s question, but it does hint at it if read correctly. As a further clue for the OP, it is important to consider the position of the carbon undergoing substitution relative to the aromatic ring, and how that ring might be able to participate.

What factor generally distinguishes SN1 from SN2? In other words, why do certain substrates go via SN2 and not SN1?

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I think you need to start by counting your carbons. They don't look like they match between your reagent / reactant and your product. You might also like to consider the feasibility of your sulfur reagent.

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This is basically the case here. Itoero, I will gladly go and fix it for you, but it will have to be tomorrow. One of the things I am coming to hate in this new software is the inability to click through directly to the post a rep point was given to. I just don’t have the patience to scroll through a 31 page thread on my phone. Somewhat related, do people prefer seeing the reputation of each post as a single cumulative number (as it is now), or the full break down of rep points a post was given (as it was about a week or two ago)?

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Yep, that's correct. I would forget the 3H2O you have drawn above the arrow, though. You don't have water participating formally in the reaction. It's fine to write NaOH(aq), or to just indicate the concentration (e.g. 2M NaOH).