Question: Well see in the next chapter that alkyl halides react with nucleophiles to give substitution products by a mechanism that involves inversion of stereochemistry at

We’ll see in the next chapter that alkyl halides react with nucleophiles to give substitution products by a mechanism that involves inversion of stereochemistry at carbon: Draw the reaction of (S)-2-bromobutane with HS ion to yield 2-butanethiol, CH3CH2CH (SH) CH3. What is the stereochemistry of the product?

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:Nu" Nu-C + X- C-X

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