| | Markovnikov's Rule and Acid Catalyzed Hydration of Alkenes |
 | | The rule applies to ClBr, ICl or hypohalous addition, acid catalyzed hydration of alkenes, and hydrohalogenation. E.g., in acid catalyzed hydration of alkenes the reagent in the balanced equation is simply H |
 | | Markovnikov's Rule predicts correctly that the acid catalyzed hydration of alkenes is regioselective in that the more highly substituted alcohol is very predominant. |
 | | Quite unsatisfactory in this treatment is that a practically simple example illustrating the Markovnikov's Rule cannot answer the question of what the reagent that the rule is all about, actually is. Neither can it point to the catalyst of this supposedly catalytic reaction. |
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