Key Terms

• anti periplanar
• bimolecular
• E1 reaction
• E1cB reaction
• E2 reaction
• first-order reaction
• kinetics
• leaving group
• nucleophilic substitution reaction
• periplanar
• rate-determining step
• rate-limiting step
• second-order reaction
• S_N1 reaction
• S_N2 reaction
• solvation
• syn periplanar
• tosylate
• unimolecular
• Zaitsev’s rule

Summary of Reactions

1. Nucleophilic substitutions

• S_N1 reaction of 3°, allylic, and benzylic halides (Section 7.4 and Section 7.5)

• S_N2 reaction of 1° and simple 2° halides (Section 7.2 and Section 7.3)

2. Eliminations

• E1 reaction (Section 7.10)

• E1cB reaction (Section 7.10)

• E2 reaction (Section 7.8)