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That’s an awesome question. And given that an alkyl halide can, by extension one would think yes. However, I can’t think of any immediate examples where it ever does behave as an electrophile. Same for alcohols actually. I THINK it’s because for alkyl halides, the halide can leave afterwards keeping carbon from making 5 bonds. But in the alkoxide, that’s not possible!
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I have my first chemistry exam in med school tomorrow and this helped a lot! Thank you
Whaaaat! Good luck, future Doctor!
thank you for helping me in becoming less of a noob in chemistry :)
Haha. We all started somewhere! Thank YOU for watching!
Nice chemistry sir
Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you for the video. Can the alkoxide also react as an electrophile at the carbon which is attached to oxygen?
Not likely since that would kick off an O(-2) ion, which is a very poor leaving group.
That’s an awesome question. And given that an alkyl halide can, by extension one would think yes. However, I can’t think of any immediate examples where it ever does behave as an electrophile. Same for alcohols actually. I THINK it’s because for alkyl halides, the halide can leave afterwards keeping carbon from making 5 bonds. But in the alkoxide, that’s not possible!