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Keywords: Walden-inversion-3D-balls.png Montage using ball-and-stick models of the three steps in an S<sub>N</sub>2 reaction Colour is used to emphasise the inversion of stereochemical configuration Walden inversion that occurs at the central atom The green atom is the nucleophile the red atom is the leaving group and the three orange atoms are substituents Own 2007-12-01 Ben Mills Benjah-bmm27 Images by Ben Mills Walden inversion |