Week 15 of 52: Hydrohalogenation

I was getting caught up. And then I stopped. I blame school. And myself. Mostly school. but I am not giving up. I missed May and June, but I will get caught up by September. And you will read it. We are making this happen. A lot. I'm not sure quite how, though. Aside from being busy with school, I'm also finding this project harder now. I've lost track of which reactions I've written about. I've forgotten a lot of reactions. This is not good. I haven't been taken chemistry and I haven't been focused on it. Enough whining.

Hydrohalogenation is a good word. I like it. Before I went on this stupid, two-month hiatus, I wrote about electrophilic addition. Hydrohalogenation is a specific case of electrophilic addition. This textbook says, "Hydrohalogenation is the addition of hydrogen halides to alkenes to form alkyl halides." And of course you remember that alkyl halides themselves can be used in substitution reactions. And there's even elimination! You could do an addition on an alkene to make an alkyl halide and an elimination on that alkyl halide to make it back into an alkene! It would be useless, but I think it would be fun.
That's an image I made. It depicts the reaction. Obviously.