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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

Carbocation is formed in SN1 reaction
In SN2 No carbocation is formed then????

Profile image of Sunaina Choudhury
8 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Aashna
8 Years ago
Being unstable carbocation is not formed in sn2 and direct product is formed.But as carbocation is stable in sn1 intermediate step is shown.
Profile image of Pranav Ballaney
8 Years ago
SN2 reactions proceed via a concerted mechanism, meaning that there is just one step. The nucleophile attacks the carbon attached to the leaving group, from the other side as the leaving group, and the C-LG bond cleaves simultaneously.
 
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Profile image of praveen kumar
8 Years ago
in SN1 reaction the carbon compound undergoes substution by forming carbon cation method. where as the in SN2 reaction it is the concerted mechanism in the the leaving group and substituting group froms addution with both are bonded on both sides.
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8 Years ago
Pranav Ballaney
 
 
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SN2 reactions proceed via a concerted mechanism, meaning that there is just one step. The nucleophile attacks the carbon attached to the leaving group, from the other side as the leaving group, and the C-LG bond cleaves simultaneously.
 
Being unstable carbocation is not formed in sn2 and direct product is formed.But as carbocation is stable in sn1 intermediate step is shown.
 
 

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