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Alkenes, Conjugated Alkenes, and Alkynes: Reaction Mechanisms and Applications

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Stability of Alkenes

  • Heat of Combustion
    02:55
  • Understanding trends of alkene stability.
    04:28

General Mechanism – Addition Reaction

  • Provide the mechanism
    01:15
  • Features of Addition Mechanisms.
    05:39

Markovnikov's Rule

  • Provide the mechanism
    01:26
  • How to add to asymmetrical double bonds.
    03:38

Hydrohalogenation

  • General properties of hydrohalogenation.
    04:07
  • Provide the mechanism
    02:24

Acid-Catalyzed Hydration

  • General properties of acid-catalyzed hydration.
    06:32
  • Acid-catalyzed hydration mechanism
    06:34

Oxymercuration-Reduction

  • Acid-catalyzed oxymercuration-reduction mechanism
    09:01
  • General properties of oxymercuration-reduction.
    05:

Hydroboration-Oxidation

  • General properties of hydroboration-oxidation.
    06:38
  • Acid-catalyzed hydroboration-oxidation mechanism
    06:14

Catalytic Hydrogenation and Wilkinson's Catalyst

  • General properties of catalytic hydrogenation.
    05:21

Epoxidation

  • Halohydrins to epoxides via intramolecular SN2.
    02:26
  • General properties of epoxidation.
    02:19
  • The mechanism of how peroxy acids make epoxides.
    03:19

Weak Oxidative Cleavage

  • General properties of ozonolysis.
    06:30

Ozonolysis Full Mechanism

  • Predict the products and show the mechanism:
    12:11
  • General Mechanism:
    07:48
  • Reductive Workup Mechanism:
    03:16

Alkyne Hydration

  • Vinyl alcohols yield tautomers.
    03:51
  • Markovnikov addition of alcohols yields ketones.
    03:29

Alkyne Hydrohalogenation

  • Double hydrohalogenation of alkynes.
    02:20
  • General properties of double addition reactions to alkynes.
    01:01

Alkyne Halogenation

  • Double halogenation of alkynes.
    02:15

Stability of Alkenes

  • Heat of Combustion
    02:55
  • Understanding trends of alkene stability.
    04:28

Nucleophilic Addition

  • Nucleophilic Addition
    08:27

Fischer Esterification – Mechanism

  • General Mechanism
    04:08
  • General Reaction
    01:08