Problems and exercisesOther Electrophilic Additions
1. The electrophile and the nucleophile
In the electrophilic addition of HBr to propene, which is the electrophile, which the nucleophile and which the slow step?
2. Hydration of isobutene
Write the mechanism of the acid-catalysed hydration of isobutene and give the product.
3. Why are they exothermic?
Why are almost all additions to a double bond exothermic?