Nucleophile vs. Base Strength
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Nucleophile vs. Base StrengthQuestions
- What is the difference between a nucleophile and a stong base?
- What are some examples of nucleophiles and strong bases?
- What determines the nucleophile's strength?
- Can a strong nucleophile be a weak base?
- How do you rank nucleophiles?
- How do you determine a nucleophile or a base?
- Are alkenes nucleophiles?
- Do nucleophiles add to carbonyl carbons?
- Why is ammonia a nucleophile?
- Is water a nucleophile?
- Can a a compound with a lone pair of electrons such as #NH_3# be a nucleophile?
- Do all molecules or ions with a free pair of electrons or one pi bond can act as nucleophiles?
- Are nucleophiles Lewis bases? Why?
- What is a nucleophilic substitution?
- How does the reactivity of a nucleophile change across a row in the periodic table?
- Which is more nucleophilic: the iodide ion (I−) or the fluoride ion (F−)?
- What is an ambident nucleophile?
- Is ethoxide a better nucleophile in methanol or acetone?
- Which of the leaving groups attached to the "R" has a higher nucleophilicity: #"R-OH"_2^+#, #"R-OEt"#, #"R-Br"# ?
- How does sodium hydroxide react with chlorobenzene?
- How do you generate a good nucleophile?
- Why do amines act as nucleophiles?
- How do amines react?
- Which is more reactive towards nucleophilic attack, an aldehyde or a ketone? Give at least one reason why
- Which of following carboxylic acid derivatives is most reactive towards nucleophilic substitution?
- Is HBr a nucleophile?
- What is the difference between a base and a nucleophile?
- What is an electrophile?
- How would you tell the difference between a good and poor nucleophile from the molecular formula?
- Which is not a good nucleophile, phenoxide ion or acetate ion?
- Is chlorine more nucleophilic than iodine?
- Why does Cyanide only react in SN2 reactions?
- Is there a molecule which behaves as both nucleophile and electrophile?
- Can NaOH be good nucleophile?
- Which is stronger as a nucleophile: #"CH"_3"S"^-# or #"HS"^-#?
- Is nitrogen more nucleophilic than oxygen?
- Why is pyridine a poor nucleophile?
- What is the difference between an electrophile and a nucleophile?
- What is the difference between an acid and an electrophile?
- How does doubling the concentration of nucleophile affect the rate of a reaction with an SN1 mechanism?
- What is the mechanism for nucleophilic substitution between butyl- iodide and NaCN?
- Why are phenols and anilines especially reactive in aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions?
- How would you arrange the following amines in order of decreasing base strength?
- How do you determine if you have an electrophile or a nucleophile?
- Why is arrow pushing utilized when organic reactivity is described?
- Which is the stronger base among #"NaOEt"# (sodium acetate) and #"LDA"# (lithium diisopropylamide)?
- Question #2420c
- Why in Nucleophilic addition-elimination reactions,does the #C=O# bond break when the nucleophile is added and not the#C-CL# bond ?
- Question #f39ca
- Question #972a1
- Classify #BX_3#, #"water"#, #"ammonia"#, #"alcohols"#, as electrophiles or nucleophiles?
- Question #d42e7
- Why NACN provides a stronger nucleophile then HCN?
- How do we write the Lewis structures of cyanide, and isocyanide ions?