easy · MCAT chem-phys
An organic chemist is performing a nucleophilic substitution on a chiral starting material with a single stereocenter. They observe that the reaction follows second-order kinetics and results in a complete inversion of configuration at the stereocenter.
Which mechanism is occurring?
- S_N2
- E1
- E2
- S_N1
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