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Alkenes Flashcards

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Alkenes+electrophiles react by

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Addition reaction

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Alkenes react with bromine by

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Electrophilic addition

At room temperature

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Electrophilic addition

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-ve charge attracts electrophiles

Pi bonds break and whole attacking species is added, thus saturating

Typically, attacker’s H forms CH₃

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Markonikov’s rule

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H joins least substituted C during HX addition to alkenes

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Alkene oxidation

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By cold, aqueous KMnO4 & NaOH

Become diols

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Epoxide rings

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Alkenes + air = epoxyethane

Easily broken via hydrolysis. Becomes ethane-1,2-diol

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