Answer:Chemical reactions often involve changes in energy due to the breaking and formation of bonds. Reactions in which energy is released are exothermic reactions, while those that take in heat energy are endothermic. exothermicA description of a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to its surroundings.
Answer:
Iodide> Bromide > chloride > flouride
Explanation:
During a nucleophilic substitution reaction, a nucleophilie replaces another in a molecule.
This process may occur via an ionic mechanism (SN1) or via a concerted mechanism (SN2).
In either case, the ease of departure of the leaving group is determined by the nature of the C-X bond. The stronger the C-X bond, the worse the leaving group will be in nucleophilic substitution. The order of strength of C-X bond is F>Cl>Br>I.
Hence, iodine displays the weakest C-X bond strength and it is thus, a very good leaving group in nucleophillic substitution while fluorine displays a very high C-X bond strength hence it is a bad leaving group in nucleophilic substitution.
Therefore, the ease of the use of halide ions as leaving groups follows the trend; Iodide> Bromide > chloride > flouride
