Which alkyl halide from the following pair is chiral and undergoes faster SN2 reaction?
(a) CH3CH2CH2CH2CH2Br
​(b) CH3CH(Br)CH2CH3

Answer b. 
Because it has different groups attached to tetrahedral carbon. So chirality is there and it has non-superimpossable mirror images.

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