Saturday, November 25, 2006
Something interesting about Sn1 and Sn2 reactions..haha..
The Plot: Think about it like this. The SN1 substrate is a good girl. She waits until her man has taken off before she finds a new boyfriend. The SN2 substrate is a bad girl. Not only is she not exactly monogamous, but she's up for having her new boyfriend give her the old "backside attack" during a threeway with her old boyfriend. Grossed out and traumatized, her old boyfriend takes off. Now, let's see how we can identify a good girl from a bad girl.
Similarities Between the Reactions: Here's the one thing these two girls have in common: Their old boyfriends have to be OK on their own once they leave, which means they have to be relatively stable. What constitutes stability? Ions like Br, Cl and I, and also sulfonate, sulfide and phosphate.
For the old boyfriend to be able to leave the SN1 carbon without her stalking him and leaving harrasing phone messages at 3 am, she's gonna need her girlfriends.
On the other hand, SN2 has a reputation for being a slut, what with her multiple boyfriends and threeways, so she doesn't have a lot of girlfriends. She does her own thing.
So what's up with reaction pathways being sluts and their attacking groups being their boyfriends? Haha..
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