ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Chapter 6 o SN2 reactions are highly useful in organic synthesis because they enable use to convert one functional group into another functional group transformation(functional group interconversion) Department of Chemistry, Xiamen UniversityORGANIC CHEMISTRY Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University Chapter 6 SN2 reactions are highly useful in organic synthesis because they enable use to convert one functional group into another —— functional group transformation (functional group interconversion)