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Tertiary alkyl halides are practically inert to substitution by SN2 mechanism because of: 

(1) Insolubility 

(2) instability 

(3) inductive effect 

(4) steric hindrance 

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Tertiary alkyl halides are practically inert to substitution by SN2 mechanism because of  steric hindrance

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