7. Leaving groups
• Bigger is better
• The bigger it is, the better it can
accept a negative charge
• The better the leaving group, the
faster the reaction
• Trend opposes that of basicity and
follows acidity
• Think in terms of its conjugate acid
Electronegativity increase
Increase in
size
10. Bases and nucleophiles
• Bases attack protons : symbol is B:
• Nucleophiles attack carbons : symbol is Nu:
• In general nucleophilicity increases with basicity: opposite if solvent is
protic (if I DO NOT FIX THIS; IT IS WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. WrOnG
• Does charge matter? Yes, negative means stronger
• Nucleophiles are Dependent on sterics
12. Solvents
• Right now we are really only worried about polar solvents
• Two types: protic and aprotic
• Protic solvents Hydrogen bond
• Aprotic solvents: have no hydrogen bonds but do have dipole-dipoles
• Acetone, DMSO, acetonitrile, DMF all are aprotic solvents
• Protic favors Sn1
• Aprotic favors Sn2
22. Hammond postulate
• Tells us what the intermediate looks like
• If closer in energy to products, it will look like the products
• If it is closer in energy to the reactants it will look like the reactants
24. Did we do synthesis today?
• Yuppy Puppy? Lets yabba dabba do this thing
• No? I cant wait til we do
25. In summary
Sn1 Sn2
Stepwise Concerted
Carbocation intermediate Only has a transition state
Racemic products Always inverted
Favored by polar protic Favored by polar aprotic
Weak nucleophile Strong nucleophile
Rate=k[substrate] Rate=k[substrate][Nu:]
Favored by tertiary and secondary halides Favored by methyl, primary, secondary halides
Unimolecular Bimolecular
26. Are you SN1 or SN2
• Step 1: How many R groups
• Methyl, 1= Sn2
• 3= Sn1
• 2= next step
• Step 2: strength of nucleophile: strong or weak?
• Step 3: Is solvent protic or aprotic?
34. Beta carbons
Beta carbons are secondarily adjacent to the
functional group
Immediately adjacent to the alpha carbon
Finding beta carbons is the first step in
predicting products for eliminations
Find Beta carbons and draw all Elimination
products
This is 8.1 in solution manual
35. Its all about that base!
Basicity increases as the formal charge gets more negative
Basicity is not as dependent on steric hinderance as nucleophiles
A sterically hindered base is called a nonnucleophilic base
B: is the symbol for a base
37. Elimination reaction
Forms alkene
We need a base
We need a Leaving Group
As number of R groups increase, rate of
reaction increases
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38. E2 reaction
Rate= k[substrate][base]
Bimolecular
Concerted
Strong base
Requires anti periplanar geometry
Trans-diaxial on a ring
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43. Major vs. Minor products
We want the most stable product
Follows Zaitsev’s rule
The less stable product can be favored
Hoffmann product
Due to steric effects
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45. E1 reaction
Weak base
Unimolecular
Involves carbocation intermediate
Two-step reaction
Rate= k[substrate]
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48. E1 vs. E2 vs. Sn1 vs. Sn2
BIG DADDY FLOW CHART
This is not mine
This is the work of clutchprep
If you are having trouble in this
course or in organic chemistry 2, I
highly recommend them
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50. Questions I like
8.1, 8.3, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.18, 8.19
You know what, I Iike all of them
Editor's Notes
Experimentally from hydrogenation
So carbocation is formed in hydrogenation reaction, so stability of carbocation decides amount of energy released in hydrogenation and therefore alkene stability
Alkene stability increases= hydrogenation energy decreases = carbocation stability increases= increased Rs
Leaving group= college student
More stable = the easier they leave
Across because: increasing electronegativity
Down because of increasing size
Increased electronegativity means that they are more likely to “Steal” the e- in their bond and more able to keep those e- once they are taken. The increased size means that the atom has more space to spread out the increased number of e-
In powerpoint there is DBN and DBU. Do we need to teach this?
Check second line
Across: electronegativity; more likely to share electrons to form a bond with hydrogen
Up: less real estate