Sunday, April 22, 2018

organic chemistry - nucleophilic attack in Acid chloride formation


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First mechanism is the one taught in lecture, and I wondered why the electrons from carbonyl Oxygen wouldn't react with thionyl chloride.
So I tried to draw a second mechanism as much as I could but it won't produce the same product.



So my question is:


Is nucleophilic attack from carbonyl Oxygen less likely. If so, why?
If not, where did I go wrong?




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