Question
A ____ substrate with a protic (or aprotic) solvent will go SN1
Answer
A tertiary substrate with a protic (or aprotic) solvent will go SN1
2 steps
There is too much steric hinderance for the nucleophile to attack the carbon while the leaving group is still there. The LG must leave first
The products will be a mixture of SN1 and E1
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