Reaction Friday: Oxymercuration of Alkenes using Hg(OAc)2 and NaBH4

in Alkenes, Organic Chemistry 1, Organic Reactions


Reaction Friday is back!!! Today’s video is on a commonly encountered reaction for making alcohols, the oxymercuration of alkenes using Hg(OAc)2 and water, followed by reduction with NaBH4.

Thanks to all of those who’ve made helpful comments on making videos.

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Tagged as: alcohol synthesis, hgoac, markovnikoff, mechanism, nabh4, oxymercuration, Reaction Friday

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Anurag Kunwar March 25, 2012 at 1:55 pm

Hi James,

I was trying to go through the oxymercuration of alkenes reaction on your website. But for some reason the movie was not loading. Can you please offer some help in this regard?

Thank you!

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james March 25, 2012 at 2:04 pm

I just checked and it is working OK for me. Not sure what the problem is.

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