Acid-Catalyzed hydration is the addition of water to an alkene which forms an alcohol: The reaction goes through a stepwise mechanism which starts with the protonation of the double bond: The presence of an acid is … Read more
We learned earlier that according to Markovnikov’s rule, the addition of an HX acid to an alkene produces the more substituted alkyl halide as the major product: Interestingly, in the presence of peroxides, HBr forms the less substituted … Read more
Let’s state the objective of this post right away. We need to explain why the following reaction produces one of the alkenes as the major product: This preference for addition to alkenes was first explained by Markovnikov and … Read more
