Why is SN1 reaction followed by racaemisation?
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In SN1, you get two different products, one with retention and one with the inversion of stereochemistry. We may say that we get a racemic mixture in SN1, which means that Page 7 there are equal amounts of the two enantiomers. ... In the SN1 reaction, the leaving group actually gets in the way of the nucleophile
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