Alkyl chlorides, bromides and iodides are good substrates
for substitution reactions (SN1 and SN2)
A wide variety of commonnucleophiles
can be used to generate a range of new functional groups.
The following diagram reflects some of the more important
reactions you may encounter.
For practice, make sure you can draw the mechanisms that
lead to these products.
This list shows alkyl halides being converted to other alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, esters, thiols, sulfides, amines, azides, nitriles and internal alkynes.
