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Question

Tertiary alkyl halide is practically inert to substitution by $S_N2$ mechanism because of

A

Insolubility

B

Instability

C

Inductive effect

D

Steric hindrance

Answer

Steric hindrance

Explanation

Solution

In tertiary alkyl halides steric hindrance does not allow substitution by $S_N2$ mechanism in which the nucleophile attacks on the carbon atom and the reaction takes place in single step.