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Book Your Trial Class“I don't know when to apply Markovnikov's rule.”
We connect Markovnikov selectivity directly to carbocation stability, so you can predict the major product from the mechanism itself rather than memorizing a rule.
“Hydroboration-oxidation feels like a completely separate topic.”
We teach it as the anti-Markovnikov counterpart to acid-catalyzed hydration, so the two reactions reinforce each other instead of feeling unrelated.
“Alkyne addition reactions confuse me even more than alkenes.”
We build alkyne addition directly on top of what you already know about alkenes, showing where the extra pi bond changes (or doesn't change) the outcome.
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In electrophilic addition to an unsymmetrical alkene, the hydrogen adds to the carbon with more existing hydrogens, and the other group adds to the more substituted carbon — because that pathway goes through the more stable carbocation.
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