Chapter 7, Problem 70PP

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation: An optically active alcohol treated with HBr to form a racemic mixture of alkyl bromide. The mechanism and stereochemical outcome are to be interpreted.

  

Concept introduction:

A multistep reaction can occur in more than one step. Out of all steps, one step must be the rate-determining step that will determine the rate of reaction as it is the slow step.

Haloalkane tends to undergo nucleophilic substitution reactions via two different reaction mechanism: ${\text{S}}_{\text{N}}\text{1}$ and ${\text{S}}_{\text{N}}\text{2}$ mechanism.