Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• identify and name organic halogen compounds
• predict the products of the elimination of alkyl halides, using Zaitsev's rule, and give the reagents required to perform this reaction
• Identify the products of nucleophilic substitution of alkyl halides
• determine the nucleophile required to react with an alkyl halide to give a specified product
• appreciate that nucleophilic substitution follows two mechanisms and the factors that effect each mechanism

• Chapter 18 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

• Alkyl halides (in Wikibooks Organic Chemistry)

Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Elimination and Electrophilic Addition Reactions Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Acidity of Organic Molecules and Types of Organic Reactions Description: Video and interactive tutorials and self test quizzes on the acidity of organic molecules and types of organic reactions Tags: acidity | substitution | elimination | addition | oxidation | reduction Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Using the terms primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary Tags: organic nomenclature Contributed by Mat Todd

Naming Alcohols, Amines and Halides Description: Video and interactive tutorials and self test quizzes on naming alcohols, amines and halides Tags: organic nomenclature | alcohols | amines | organic halides Contributed by Adam Bridgeman