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how addition of bromine to an alkene is said to be an anti addition?how cyclic bromonium ion is formed?how a meso compound is formed during the same reaction

how addition of bromine to an alkene is said to be an anti addition?how cyclic bromonium ion is formed?how a meso compound is formed during the same reaction

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Naveen Kumar
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9 years ago
In meso compound the individual centers are chiral but there exist plane of symmetry in the molecule. In this case we have trans alkene then anti addition of bromine wil lead to meso compound .
The mechanism for a general bromination reaction is given below:

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