Chapter 11 Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes are summarized lists of the main ideas/skills that students should take away from a chapter. “Learning Outcomes” lists are not exhaustive; there may be other ideas/skills covered in the chapter that are also useful but not necessarily the main focus.

For Chapter 11 the Learning Outcomes are:

1. Be able to recognize when a nucleophilic substitution reaction is taking place.

2. Draw a mechanism and predict the stereochemical outcome and product(s) of S_N1 and S_N2 reactions.

3. Differentiate between reaction conditions favouring S_N1 or S_N2 mechanisms (i.e. in a given nucleophilic substitution reaction, be able to predict if the reaction proceeds by S_N1 or S_N2).

4. Understand which groups are better nucleophiles and leaving groups and which groups are not for S_N1 and S_N2 reactions.