Oxymercuration Demercuration Alkene Hydration

In this lecture we examine hydration of alkenes using mercury (II) acetate in water, known as oxymercuration. This multistep reaction results in an Markovinkov addition of an alcohol group with anti stereochemistry observed every time.

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