SN1 Reactions with Carbocation Rearrangements

In this tutorial we are going to discuss the fundamentals of the carbocation rearrangements in SN1 reactions.

PS: there's an error in the original example: the two unrearranged products should be diastereomers, of course, not enantiomers.

00:00 Tricky Example
01:04 Carbocation Stability Trends
04:35 What Exactly is the Carbocation Rearrangement?
06:06 Why Do the Carbocation Rearrangements Happen to Begin With?
08:13 Re-Analyzing the Original Tricky Question
10:51 Example 1
12:30 Example 2

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