What is regioselectivity and stereoselectivity?

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Apr 19, 2018

Regioselectivity concerns what region of the molecule reacts to form selective products. Many addition reaction have this kind of selectivity.

Stereoselectivity concerns in what conformation the products will be after a reaction. A basic example of this is SN2 reactions, that proceeds via a transition state,

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that encourages inversion of configuration of the chirality center.