chemistry

Know the “normal” state for common organic atoms [3 rules to live by]

Structures of molecules can be difficult to piece together at first when you are just starting in an organic chemistry class. Hopefully you retained some of this knowledge from general chemistry. If not, one of the tricks that can greatly help with this is to know the uncharged or “normal” state for atoms that are […]

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Organic Chemistry Help: Resonance and SN1/SN2

Hi everybody, I wanted to talk briefly today about resonance and sterics and how it can affect and SN1 or SN2.  For background, I hope everyone knows when it comes to SN1 reactions, tertiary substrates are the fastest and primary substrates are the slowest (because of carbocation stability).  Conversely, when it comes to SN2, it

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