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

JEE Main 2005 Chemistry question

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

Answer: (4)

requires backside attack of the nucleophile on the carbon bearing the halogen. In tertiary halides

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