Importance of radical Halogenation The source of the large majority of organic materials used for a countless number of applications, which can be plastics, drugs, paints, clothes, electronics, and many more, is crude oil. We need to have … Read more
Before going into the details of allylic bromination, let’s quickly recall what the term allylic means. An allylic position is the carbon atom adjacent to a double bond. Here is a summary of the different positions and their corresponding carbocations … Read more
We learned earlier that according to Markovnikov’s rule, the addition of an HX acid to an alkene produces the more substituted alkyl halide as the major product:   Interestingly, in the presence of peroxides, HBr forms the less substituted … Read more
