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Hello students, in this question we have to write out the mechanism for the hydration of the internal alkane.
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Let us choose an internal alkane of r c triple bond c r.
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So this will react with the hg2+.
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This is the initiator for this reaction.
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This will gives us a mercurium ion which is a cyclic intermediate with mercury in its cyclic structure and this now react with the water molecule hoh.
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The lone pair of the nitrogen will attack this carbon and therefore this bond shifts over here and thereby neutralize one of the positive charge of the mercury.
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So the resulting compound is r c double bond c.
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Here will be the oh group and here will be the r and here will be the hg+.
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So this will undergo keto enol tautomism.
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That is this hydrogen is removed and this bond shifts over here and this bond shifts over here and the removed hydrogen will attach to this carbon...