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Will IPA react with HCL

Updated: 9/17/2023
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Not likely as ipa is a secondary alcohol and will not form as stable a carbocation as tertiary alcohols such as tert-butyl alcohol in this SN1 first order nucleophilic substitution reaction. However, ZnCl2 would facilitate the formation of the carbocation with ipa and the nucleophile (Cl-) could then attack with the subsequent formation of the alkyl halide.

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