Tertiary alkyl halides are practically inert to substitution by S_N2 mechanism because of

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Tertiary alkyl halides are practically inert to substitution by mechanism because of

Answer: (D)

Three bulky alkyl groups block the backside approach of the nucleophile to the carbon bearing the halogen, which is

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