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This is the answer to chapter 22, problem number 37 from the smith organic chemistry textbook.
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This problem asks us to rank the following compounds in order of increasing reactivity in nucleophilic acal substitution.
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And so the first thing that i've done here is to redraw these molecules as skeletal representations because ball and stick models i think are not great to work with.
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So i've redrawn all three of them here.
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And so i'm going to rank them like this.
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So how does it want it? in order of increasing reactivity.
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Okay, so one will be least reactive and three will then be most reactive.
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Now, obviously two will be in the middle.
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Okay.
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And so in order to determine the reactivity of these three molecules for a nucleophilic acal substitution, we need to consider what the least.
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Group is in each of them.
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And remember, the better the leaving group, the more reactive the molecule will be...