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The Reactivity Selectivity Principle: Should It Ever Be Used?

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Buncel, Erwin; Wilson, Harold – Journal of Chemical Education, 1987

Questions the use of the Reactivity Selectivity Principle (RSP) by teachers and authors of texts in discussing organic reaction mechanisms. Provides some applications and failures of the use of the RSP, reviews some quantitative aspects of the RSP, and discusses some of the rationalization of the RSP failures. (TW)

Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Chemical Reactions, College Science, Higher Education