How to pronounce“carbocation”in English

Our carbocation! SN1 reactions prefer tertiary carbocations, which are stable thanks to those effects we talked about in episode 14: induction and hyperconjugation.

This carbocation is now a prime electrophilic target, and it’s still reactive even though we're sitting in a mini-valley and taking a break.

And carbocations are some of the most pesky characters out there, taunting enough that even a weak nucleophile like water will attack them.

This leaves a carbocation on the ring.

Once a carbocation forms, the nucleophile can deprotonate our substrate, so some E1 products get formed too.

This forms a carbocation on the side that has resonance stabilization, thanks to oxygen being all generous and sharing a pair of electrons.

Where the carbocation forms ultimately determines what product we get.