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HW 1203:
help with mec.hanism pls explai
Ho Dilute aq. H₂ Soy sou
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In the first step, due to the presence of an acid, an H+ is added to the olefin. The H+ gets attached to the terminal carbon as then a tertiary carbocation is obtained. If it would have attached with the internal carbon, then we would have obtained a primary carbocation. Tertiary carbocations are always much more stable than a primary carbocations.

Once, the carbocation is generated, H2O in the reaction mixture will behave as a nucleophile and donate electron density to the carbocation.

In the final step, to attain electrical neutrality, a H+ would be lost from oxygen and the final product, a tertiary alcohol is obtained.

쎄 H₂o: 쎄 IH -H AO (+) 앤 DH 빠

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