Figure 1.
Nitrogen lone-pair attack and iodide departure form choline iodide
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Draw a curly arrow from the nitrogen lone pair to methyl carbon, and a second from the C-I bond to I:
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This is concerted SN2 quaternization. The product is choline iodide; nitrogen has four carbon substituents and positive charge, while the alcohol remains OH.

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