{"id":1836,"date":"2012-11-08T21:12:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T05:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2012\/11\/mo-models-for-sn1-e1-rxns.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:00","slug":"mo-models-for-sn1-e1-rxns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2012\/11\/mo-models-for-sn1-e1-rxns\/","title":{"rendered":"MO Models for SN1 &amp; E1 Rxns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAn essential aspect of SN1 and E1 reactions is the dissociation of the leaving group. These <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/Day%2016%20slides.pdf\"><strong>lecture slides<\/strong><\/a> from Day 16 (Oct 29-30) discussed the following phenomena and trends from an MO perspective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tHow can we describe polar dissociation of a covalent bond (heterolysis) using MO models?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tHow does this MO model explain the reactivity of <em>sp<\/em>3 C-Cl vs. the lack of reactivity of <em>sp<\/em>2 C-Cl and <em>sp<\/em> C-Cl bonds?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tHow can we explain the stabilization of carbocations by vinyl groups (<strong>conjugation<\/strong>) and alkyl groups (<strong>hyperconjugation<\/strong>) using MO models?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tHow does this MO model explain the extreme acidity of carbocations?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> An essential aspect of SN1 and E1 reactions is the dissociation of the leaving group. These lecture slides from Day 16 (Oct 29-30) discussed the following phenomena and trends from an MO perspective: How can we describe polar dissociation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}