Alkene Addition Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry #16

Like a trendy dance, a fighting combo, or a secret handshake, organic reactions can be broken down into simpler steps. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll specifically be looking at alkene addition reactions, and with each new reaction ask ourselves three questions to help us puzzle through the mechanism and understand what’s going on. Episode Sources: Le Couteur, P, Burreson, J. Napoleon’s Buttons: 17 molecules that changed history., Penguin, New York, 2004, Chapter 1. Whipps, H., “How the Spice Trade Changed the World,” https://www.livescience.com/7495-spice-trade-changed-world.html Last accessed, 3/28/2020. Henriques...