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Stereochemistry of the hydroxymercuration of alkenes

N. S. Zefirov

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract: CONTENTS
I. Introduction 527
II. Mechanism of the reactions of hydroxymercuration and dehydroxymercuration 528
III. Hydroxymercuration of bicycloalkenes (in the absence of preliminary coordination of the mercury ion with the substituents) 530
IV. Methods of finding the configuration of 2-mercurated alcohols 531
V. Hydroxymercuration of alkenes when there is preliminary coordination of a mercury ion with functional groups 534


UDC: 547.313:547.254.9

DOI: 10.1070/RC1965v034n07ABEH001501

 English version: Russian Chemical Reviews, 1965, 34:7, 527–536