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Title: Would there be reaction between an Ethanethiol and propene?
Post by: damoj on December 06, 2011, 02:59:29 PM

hey,

a question asked to specifiy if there was a reaction between Ethanethiol and propene and if there was, what would the mechanism be.

Ethanethiol has a pka of 10.6 so i thought there would be an deprotonation/addition.

The answer says that the ethanethiol is too weak a base though.

Would there really be no reaction?

Title: Re: Would there be reaction between an Ethanethiol and propene?
Post by: fledarmus on December 06, 2011, 03:24:38 PM

Not "no reaction", but no deprotonation...

What other reactions do alkenes undergo?