The Mechanism of the SN2 Reaction Video Help Me With Organic Chemistry!

This video will go over the SN2 mechanism (SN2 reaction). This is an important mechanism to master for any organic chemistry student. In this mechanism, a nucleophile will attack an electrophilic carbon from the side opposite of the leaving group. (180 degrees from the leaving group). This is called "back side attack". This reaction does not have a reactive intermediate but it does have a transition state. The transition state is that stage of the reaction where the chemical bond between the nucleophile and the electrophilic carbon is being formed and the chemical bond between the leaving group and the electrophilic carbon is being broken. The end result of this is the leaving group departs from the electrophilic carbon, taking its bond electrons with it, and the nucleophil forms a bond to the electrophilic carbon.Show more

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This video is part of a series called How to be Successful in Organic Chemistry. In this series I go over numerous problems that a student could expect to see in there organic chemistry 1 course. Doing organic chemistry practice problems will make you more successful in organic chemistry and biochemistry.

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