Markovnikov addition definition

An attempt has been made to analyse whether the electrophilicity index is a reliable descriptor of the kinetic behaviour. Relative experimental rates of Friedel-Crafts benzylation, acetylation, and benzoylation reactions were found to correlate well with the corresponding calculated electrophilicity values. In the case of chlorination of various substituted ethylenes and nitration of toluene and chlorobenzene, the correlation was generally poor but somewhat better in the case of the experimental and the calculated activation energies for selected Markovnikov and anti-Markovnikov addition reactions. Reaction electrophilicity, local electrophilicity, and activation hardness were used together to provide a transparent picture of reaction rates and also the orientation of aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions. Ambiguity in the definition of the electrophilicity was highlighted.15... 

We are currently investigating the reactions of l with other protic acids and the interactions of the resulting products with olefins and acetylenes. The object of this work is to establish if dinuclear complexes can function as catalysts for the anti-Markovnikov addition of HX to terminal olefins or acetylenes. Preliminary results show that the HI adduct (17) reacts slowly with 1-hexene at 80° (products not yet definitely established). The reaction of 17 with ethylene (45 psi, 75°) yields 3-pentanone as the primary organic product. Acetylene (1 atm., 25°) reacts rapidly at room temperature with 17 to give as yet unidentified products. 

This is the synthesis of a somewhat controversial food preservative called BHT. It is an antioxidant that has been put in packaging to keep foods from becoming rancid from air oxidation. A balanced reaction would require two molecules of the alkene for each of the starting aromatic. The aromatic ring is relatively electron rich with two donors attached to it. With sulfuric acid present, the medium is definitely acidic. The first step is to generate the excellent electrophile needed for electrophilic aromatic substitution. For simplicity, let s symbolize sulfuric acid as H-A. The Markovnikov addition of a proton to isobutylene gives the tert-butyl carbocation, an excellent electrophile. 

Markovnikov orientation the 1,2-addition of an unsymmet-rical electrophilic reagent to an alkene with attachment of the more positive moiety of the reagent (H in the original definition) to the less substituted carbon Michael addition conjugate addition addition of a nucleophile to the /3-position of a carbon-carbon double or triple bond that is conjugated to a carbonyl or other electron-withdrawing group... 

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