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Started 1 day, 5 hours ago (2009-11-10 18:17:00)
by anonymousername
i found 3 reasons (i incorporated the third into my first answer) 1) its negative. electrophiles are supposed to act like lewis acids and be electron pair acceptors but the oxygen has a negative on it meaning that it will repulse the incoming nucleophile. Because it undergoes resonance, the negative charge is distributed over more of the molecule. 2) Beta branching. Because the reation was...