6/9/2012 - Alkene Halohydration

Sorry for the lack of posts recently as physiotherapy has taken over my life lately and it has exhausted me to the point of falling asleep super early (unlike me).  But I thought I would continue in doing a couple basic organic reactions.  This reaction is the conversion of an alkene into a halohydrated alkane, where there is both an alcohol group and a halogen added to the carbons.  The reactants in this reaction are simply a diatomic halogen (F₂, Cl₂, Br₂, I₂) along with water which also works as the solvent.  This results in the alcohol adding to the most substituted carbon with the halogen adding to the other carbon, both anti configuration to one another.