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Title: Hydroboration/Oxidation question
Post by: booound2 on September 29, 2021, 09:04:15 PM

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Can anyone help me with this question? I know hydroboration/oxidation adds the OH to the least substituted carbon of the double bond and it adds the OH and H in syn addition, so my first thought was that the answer was B because the hydrogens beside the alcohol weren't cis with it. Is that right?

Title: Re: Hydroboration/Oxidation question
Post by: booound2 on September 29, 2021, 09:06:56 PM

the file didn't add to the question, here it is