Skip to main content

Twin: The Addition Reaction

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

An addition reaction breaks a double or triple bond's pi component and forms two new single bonds, one to each carbon, changing their hybridization.

Show

Bromine adds across ethene's double bond, converting the sp2 carbons to sp3 and yielding 1,2-dibromoethane.

Watch for

Addition happens at an existing multiple bond and changes carbon hybridization — confusing it with the mechanism named next is this twin's target.