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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

Role of pi and sigma bond in electrophillic substation by energy dairy

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4 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Priyanshu Gujjar
4 Years ago

An electrophilic addition reaction is a reaction in which a substrate is initially attacked by an electrophile, and the overall result is the addition of one or more relatively simple molecules across a multiple bond.

The mechanism for the addition of hydrogen halide to propene shown in the reading is quite detailed. Normally, an organic chemist would write the reaction scheme