IB Chemistry HL 3.4.2 Nucleophilic Substitution Question Bank

Practise IB Chemistry HL 3.4.2 Nucleophilic Substitution with focused questions on curly-arrow electron movement, reactants and products.

Exam points

identify the electron-deficient carbon bonded to the leaving group as the attack site
replace the leaving group with the nucleophile while preserving the carbon skeleton
show new-bond formation and leaving-group departure with correctly sourced curly arrows

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Organic compounds have many industrial applications.

1-Bromobutane reacts with aqueous sodium hydroxide, NaOH(aq), to form butan-1-ol.

State the name of the mechanism by which this reaction occurs.

nucleophilic substitution

Marking guidance:

Allow $S_{N} 2$ but not $S_{N} 1$ .

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