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    Using Potential Energy Diagrams, Explain Why Alkoxides Act as Leaving
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Using Potential Energy Diagrams, Explain Why Alkoxides Act as Leaving

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Using potential energy diagrams, explain why alkoxides act as leaving groups in nucleophilic acyl substitutions but not in SN2 reactions.

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See Figure 21-10, p.963 in the textbook....

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