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Formation of alcohol by oxymercuration- demercuration of alkenes

Updated On: Jul 28, 2022
  • involves carbocations and rearrangement
  • involves carbanions and retoangement
  • is stereospecific
  • does not involve rearrangement and carbocation
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Oxymercuration-demercuration of alkenes involves following steps : (i) Dissociation of mercury (II) acetate $CH _{3} COO - Hg - OCOCH _{3} \longrightarrow \underset{\text{electrophile}}{CH _{3} COO - Hg ^{+}}+ CH _{3} COO ^{-}$ (ii) Attack of electrophile on double bond of alkene
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(iii) Addition of water Hence, oxymercuration-demercuration process involves, reduction and bridged mercurinium ion formation.
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