Questions tagged [intramolecular-reaction]
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What mechanism do reaction of PCl5 follows, SNi or SN2?
I was taught that $\ce{PCl5}$ reacts with alcohols by $S_Ni$ mechanism as shown below:
Here it can be seen that $\ce{PCl5}$ exists as $\ce{[PCl4]+[PCl6]-}$ and so lone pair of the alcohol is donated ...
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Which way is major in this interesting intramolecular SN2 reaction to form different five memeber ring? [closed]
Which direction of the intramolecular reactions is major and why? Could someone could depict the mechanism step by step and it is better to draw out the transitional state configurations
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Intramolecular Reaction with carbocation rearrangement
I came across a question recently which is as follows,
I came up with a mechanism but I am stuck at a step as I am unable to reason out the driving force.
Step(3) has a hydride shift and its next ...
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