Chemistry > Hydrocarbons > 10.0 Mechanism Of Some Important Reaction Of Alkenes

  Hydrocarbons
    1.0 Introduction
    2.0 Alkanes
    3.0 Methods of Preparation Alkanes
    4.0 Physical Proparties
    5.0 Chemical Properties
    6.0 Alkenes
    7.0 Methods of Preparation Alkenes
    8.0 Physical Proparties
    9.0 Chemical Properties
    10.0 Mechanism Of Some Important Reaction Of Alkenes
    11.0 Alkynes
    12.0 Methods of Preparation Alkynes
    13.0 Physical Properties
    14.0 Chemical Properteis
    15.0 Modern Concept
    16.0 Properteis
    17.0 Mechanism of Electrophilic Substitution Reactions
    18.0 Toluene
    19.0 Alkenyl Benzene

10.1 Mechanism of halogen addition
The mechanism proposed is an ionic mechanism.
In the first step the exposed electrons of the $\pi $- bond of the alkene attacks the halogen in the following way:
As $\pi - e's$ of the alkene approach the bromine molecules, the electrons of bromine – bromine bond drift to make bromine molecule polarised. The more distant bromine develops a partial negative charge and nearer bromine becomes partially positive. Polarization weakens the bond and cleaves it heterolytically.
In second step, one of the bromide ions predicted in step I attacks one of the carbon atoms of the bromonium ion. The nucleophilic attack results in the formation of a vicinal dibromide by opening the three – membered ring.
On reaction of cyclopentane with bromine in $CC{l_4},$ anti – addition occurs and the products of the reaction are trans – 1, 2 dibromocyclopentane enantiomers (as a race`mate)
Addition of bromine to cis – 2 – butene gives racemic form of 2, 3 – dibromobutane.
Bromine adds to trans – 2 – butene to form meso compound, thus the reaction is stereospecific in nature.



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