Oxymercuration of alkenes is an important method of making alcohols from alkenes while avoiding the carbocation rearrangements.

00:00 Intro
00:38 Mechanism
05:13 Example 1
10:03 Comparison of Hydration
11:47 Stereochemistry of Oxymercuration


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