RareEarth - 15-1-2016 at 17:17
I was having a little difficulty finding information on this. If an acyl chloride is reacted with a chiral alcohol, is the chirality inverted, or
retained? I couldn't find any information whether this would be an SN1 or an SN2, but maybe I didn't look in the right place yet.
Etaoin Shrdlu - 15-1-2016 at 17:49
It's neither SN1 nor SN2.
Look at the reaction closely. On which atom are you worrying about chirality?
blogfast25 - 15-1-2016 at 17:57
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/mechanisms/addelim/alcohol.html#t...
Can't see how chirality can be affected here.
RareEarth - 15-1-2016 at 18:04
Ah, you guys are right. I had a brain fart moment there. My brain seemed to be mixing up information about alkyl halide/alcohol reactions and acyl
chlorides.