Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution
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A nucleophilic aromatic substitution is a nucleophilic substitution reaction in which it is a leaving group on an aromatic ring that is replaced by the nucleophile.
eg. 1:
net reaction:
eg. 2:
net reaction:
see also benzyne mechanism, SNAr mechanism, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution
Contributors and Attributions
- Gamini Gunawardena from the OChemPal site (Utah Valley University)