whatlifeforme Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 In my organic chemistry class, the lecture notes and professor does not label any of the reactions as "SN1, SN2, E1 or E2," and nor does the textbook. However, many of the video tutorials online as well as in my prior organic class at another school, we used such classifications. Can anyone explain why this is such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Not every reaction is an SN1, SN2, E1 or E2 reaction; unless you are learning about those reactions specifically, they probably won't be labeled as such. What reactions are you referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarletKnight13 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) Not every reaction is an SN1, SN2, E1 or E2 reaction; unless you are learning about those reactions specifically, they probably won't be labeled as such. What reactions are you referring to? She is correct in the sense that you should be a little more specific in terms of what mechanisms you are referring to.... Are you talking about the nucleophilic substitution of alkyl halides? (bc that is what i just learned about) Edited October 26, 2011 by ScarletKnight13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Licon Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I got a book it says that symbol assigned as Sn1, for substitution, nucleophilic, unimolecular and for Sn2, substitution, nucleophilic, bimolecular. E1, for elimination, unimolecualr E2, for elimination, bimolecular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Well, there's a little more to it than that; that's the crux of it though, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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