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Alkoxy-mercuration of Alkenes

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The alkoxymercuration reaction is similar to oxymercuration reaction, except alcohol is used instead of water.

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Reactions #3 and #4 are examples of this two-step procedure. Note that the alcohol reactant is used as the solvent, and a trifluoroacetate mercury (II) salt is used in preference to the acetate (trifluoroacetate anion is a poorer nucleophile than acetate). The mechanism of alkoxymercuration is similar to that of oxymercuration, with an initial anti-addition of the mercuric species and alcohol being followed by reductive demercuration.

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This page titled Alkoxy-mercuration of Alkenes is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by William Reusch.

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