Arre, because they prefer elimination over substitution, yaar—too many alkyl groups crowding the beta carbons! Just yesterday, my class XII boys were so confident mixing anything in the lab, until their precious tert-butyl bromide gave only alkene fumes and sad faces. Sometimes, like my quiet Rohan who finally explained Sn1 to the whole bench, the answer isn't in the book but in the stubborn, fizzy reality right under your nose.
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