We're also going to explore a little bit about how some of the ideas from Chapter 8 were discovered: we'll talk about the data from actual experiments performed by scientists who wanted to address que...We're also going to explore a little bit about how some of the ideas from Chapter 8 were discovered: we'll talk about the data from actual experiments performed by scientists who wanted to address questions such as "is this nucleophilic substitution S N 1 or S N 2?", or "can I show that this reaction really proceeds with inversion of configuration?". As we do this, remember always to keep focused on the simple things you already know: for each reaction, be sure that you can strip away in your m…