Time: 5pm
Date: 7/10/15
Meeting agenda: Nucleophilic reactions TBL group assignment

Location: 18A/B TV lounge, Ang Kheng’s room

These questions were not easy. We met up at the 18A/B TV lounge had long debates on every question, and especially so for question 3, where all the reactions appeared to be feasible yet we had to choose which one was going to be favoured over all the others (to produce the major product). In addition, while we had an idea of what mechanisms were involved in questions 1 and 2, we were stumped when it came to drawing them out, so we decided to go for dinner first.

However, when we got back to the TV lounge after dinner, we were shocked to find that some other people were already using it! Now that we had lost our meeting location, we decided to move to Ang Kheng’s room to finish discussing the questions and finalise our answers. Fortunately, Ang Kheng had his USD52 modelling set lying around, so to settle the debate, we used it to make some of the molecules to visualise exactly what was happening during each reaction. We realised that it was actually more useful than drawing the structures out on paper and debating over them, so we decided to make a short video answer in addition to our written answers, which you can see in our assignment submission for the week.