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Ananya Shree

Class 12th
Chemistry
2 years ago

Give reason Neopentyl bromide undergoes nucleophilic substitution reactions very slowly.

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Bromine is sterically hindered because it is linked to carbon where the surrounding carbon group contains a significant number of alkyl substituents ( like a shielding effect to prevent nucleophilic attack). This is why this nucleophilic substitution takes so long

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