Monthly Archives: October 2008

Back side attack & HOMO-LUMO overlap

Posted on October 13, 2008 by alan

I made two points about the 3-D aspects of nucleophilic substitution today in lecture:the bimolecular reaction that I described (aka SN2) occurs by "backside attack". This is an experimental observation that has been made hundreds (probably tens of thousands) of… Continue reading →

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