5/8/2012 - Alkene to Alkyl halide

There are many simple organic reactions out there in the world of chemistry and this here is one of them.  This reactions involves the treatment of an alkene with a hydrogen halide and ether as the solvent.  This results in the HX (HF, HCl, HBr, HI) to combine with the alkene agreeing with the Markovnikov rule (the halide adding to the most substituted carbon).  The reaction can be seen below using HF as the hydrogen halide.