Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• identify alkene diastereomers as E or Z
• identify the electrophiles and nucleophiles in a reaction
• follow a reaction mechanism using curly arrows
• predict the major products obtained from the reaction of alkenes with electrophiles (using Markovnikov's rule)

• Sections 16.3 and 16.5 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

• Alkenes (in Wikibooks Organic Chemistry)
• Alkenes (in ChemWiki)

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