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

• predict the major products obtained from the reaction of alkynes with electrophiles (using Markovnikov's rule)

• Sections 16.3 and 16.6 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

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

Alkenes, Benzene and Alkynes Contributed by Adam Bridgeman