1regioselectivity
On what factors product in Oxymercuration demercuration depends... ?
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1Oxymercuration is very regioselective and is a textbook Markovnikov reaction; ruling out extreme cases, the water nucleophile will always preferentially attack the more substituted carbon, depositing the resultant hydroxy group there.
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1there wll be no rearrangement of carbocation but the more stable carbocvation will be formed.
