Chapter 8 Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes are summarized lists of the main ideas/skills that students should take away from a chapter. “Learning Outcomes” lists are not exhaustive; there may be other ideas/skills covered in the chapter that are also useful but not necessarily the main focus.

For Chapter 8 the Learning Outcomes are:

1. Draw a curved arrow mechanism for a reaction using a pi bond as a nucleophile.

2. Predict the relative stability of carbocations based on their substitution and conjugation.

3. Predict the major product(s) from hydrohalogenation of an alkene (addition of H-X to an alkene).

4. Predict the major product(s) of an addition reaction between an alkene and water or an alcohol under acidic conditions (addition of H-OH or H-OR to an alkene).

5. Predict the major product(s) from oxymercuration-demercuration of an alkene (addition of H-OH to an alkene using mercury).

6. Predict the major product(s) from halogenation of an alkene (addition of X-X to an alkene).

7. Predict the major product(s) from addition of alkenes and hypohalous acids (addition of X-OH to an alkene).

8. Predict the major product(s) for the epoxidation of alkenes.

9. Predict the major product(s) for the addition of a nucleophile onto an epoxide (addition of HO-OH or HO-OR under acid/base catalysis to an alkene).

10. Predict the major product(s) for a hydroboration reaction (addition of H-OH to an alkene using borane).

11. Predict the major product(s) for the hydrogenation of alkenes (addition of H-H to an alkene).

12. Predict the major product(s) for the partial or full hydrogenation of alkynes (addition of H-H to an alkyne).