Unit Preview & Unit Objectives
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- 44309
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As you have seen, addition reactions dominate the chemistry of alkenes. This unit will show how a variety of reagents, including the halogens, mercury(II) acetate, borane and hydrogen, can add to alkenes; how hydrogen bromide can be made to add to alkenes in a non-Markovnikov manner; and how alkene molecules can be cleaved into easily identifiable parts. The unit will begin by examining the preparation of alkenes by elimination reactions.
Unit Objectives
After you have completed Unit 8, you should be able to
- fulfill all of the detailed objectives listed under each individual section.
- design a relatively simple, multistep synthesis using the reactions introduced in this unit, given the structure, name, or both, of the starting material and product. For example, show how you would convert 1-bromobutane to
- deduce the structures of a number of compounds involved in a certain reaction sequence, given sufficient information. In other words, solve so-called road-map problems of the type shown in problems 8.43 and 8.44 on page 309 of Organic Chemistry, 8th ed.
- define, and use in context, the key terms introduced in this unit.
Contributors
Dr. Dietmar Kennepohl FCIC (Professor of Chemistry, Athabasca University)