Organic Chemistry 201

Chapter 6 Alkenes: Structures and Reactivity

The following are items that you need to know for Exam III:

Degrees of Unsaturation

Ethylene - the carbon-carbon double bond

IUPAC nomenclature of alkenes

cis/trans -isomers

E,Z-Sequence rules

Alkene stability series

Alkene: Electrophilic Addition Ionic (EAI) and carbocations (mechanisms)

Markovnikov's rule

Stability of carbocations

Rearrangement of carbocations