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| | Alkene Reactivity |
 | | The Markovnikov Rule: When a Brønsted acid, HX, adds to an unsymmetrically substituted double bond, the acidic hydrogen of the acid bonds to that carbon of the double bond that has the greater number of hydrogen atoms already attached to it. |
 | | The Markovnikov Rule, for example, suggests there are common and important principles at work in these addition reactions, but it does not tell us what they are. |
 | | This supprising result may be explained by a carbocation rearrangement of the initially formed 2º-carbocation to a 3º-carbocation by a 1,2-shift of a methyl group. |
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