Nucleophilic Substitutions
- Nucleophilic substitution is a common reaction mechanism in which an electron-rich nucleophile
attacks an electrophilic center and displaces another nucleophile
- In one kind of nucleophilic substitution an intermediate is formed. In the reaction above, the
intermediate consists of a central carbon atom with a bond to an entering Y group, another to a leaving X group,
and a single bond to an oxygen with an unstable negative charge