Um, is strong acid a substitution reaction??

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Is HCl in Water a special type of substitution reaction? For instance, if you put HCl into a beaker of Water, wouldn't the water would act as a good nucleophile attacking the H-Cl bond. The hydrogen Cl- would be the stable leaving group and the H3O+ would be the newly formed product. I never actually heard of a strong acid / base reaction as a type of nucleophilic reaction but given what I know about other reactions, I sorta became curious about this.

 

[ridethecliche]

H-Cl is an ionic bond.

It dissociates in water.

 

[Rabolisk]

H-Cl is an ionic bond?

 

[ridethecliche]

H-Cl is an ionic bond?

Wow fail.

Polar covalent by the electronegativity difference.

I should really stop posting on the answers section when I'm supposed to be doing work. Like now....

Thanks again commander Rabo!

Though, this part I'm sure is right.

What actually happens is not the H-Cl dissociating, but a reaction like you suggest. Water is very basic compared to H-Cl so the proton is donated to the h2o ->h30+

A strong acid/base reaction is actually a neutralization reaction which is a double substitution reaction.

OP: You figure out the 'character' of a bond by comparing the EN differences. Here's the wiki on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity

 

[Rabolisk]

Water is very basic compared to Cl-, rather than H-Cl. Sure, it is a lot more basic than H-Cl, but you should be comparing the conjugate base of an acid and water. More importantly, it is Commissioner Rabo.