The difference between protic vs. aprotic solvents

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Protic solvents are also able to undergo E2 reactions. E2 reactions can occur both in protic and aprotic solvents.

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Hi Omar! Aprotic solvents are still much preferred for both SN2 and E2 reactions since there are no interactions between the solvent and nucleophile/base. I hope this helps! :)

[@zinee6100]

I got a question, is this just a word changing for the effect of h-bonding? Say when talking about carbocations we think h-bonding stabilizes it, but when discussing electrophiles the h-bonding should have the same effect right? but in stead we say it hinder electrophiles (to accept electrons)?

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Hey there! In a way, yes. since it is stabilized by the partial negative parts of the protic solvent. Hope that helps! :)

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HCl doesn't contain N/O/F -H bond but it's still protic??? What if a compound that's unsymmetrical electron density but contain all really polar bond (like N/O/F -H bond), is it still protic?

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thank you brother, really clarified how to identify aprotic and protic solvent

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Also one doubt , Cl has higher electronegativity than N but still it doesn't undergo H bonding why is it so?

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@@cyberbeastry8809 Hi there! Even though chlorine has a higher electronegativity than nitrogen, it does not form hydrogen bonds because it is larger than nitrogen. Being larger in size will give chlorine a lower electron density that will not favor hydrogen bonding. Hope it helps :)

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[@koycelynharrell5968]

wait, where is the rest of the video.. i need to know how to tell if it is protic or aprotic based on the molecular formula :(

[@muntahaabid6770]

if, in the molecular formula, there is H bonded to O or F or N, then it is protic

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and if in molecular formula, none of the H are directly bonded to any O or F or N, then it cant make hydrogen bonds so it is aprotic

[@muntahaabid6770]

like in this video, there is formula of CH3CN, altho it has H and N but it is aprotic cuz the H and N arent bonded with each other. All the H are bonded to Carbon and the N is also bonded to a Carbon. but for example if we had CH3CH2OH, this is protic cuz theres an H bonded to O at the end

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this video was great until you did not go through the examples

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is ammonia protic or aprotic

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Hi Rudresh! Protic solvents are polar solvents that can exhibit H-bondings like water and ammonia. Hope that helps :)

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symmetrical*

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