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PHARMD GURU Page 1 We saw the double bond as a place in the alkene molecule where reaction occur: electrophilic or free-radical addition. Besides providing a site for addition, the double bond exerts powerful effects on certain reactions taking place elsewhere on the molecule. Although suffering no permanent change itself, the double bond plays an essential role in determining the course of reaction. It is this part of alkene chemistry that we shall take up in this chapter: the carbon- carbon double bond, not as a functional group, but as a substituent. A double bond, exerts its effect differently from an alkyl group, and, as a result, its effects are often more powerful. Most of these effects stem from the structural feature called conjugation: the location of the π orbital in such a way that it can overlap other orbitals in the molecule. To implement our discussion of conjugation we shall make use of the structural theory called resonance. FREE-RADICAL HALOGENATION OF ALKENES: SUBSTITUTION VS. ADDITION & FREE RADICAL SUBSTITUTION IN ALKENES: Let us look at the structure of the simple alkene, propylene. CH2=CH—CH3 Propylene It contains a carbon–carbon double bond, where the same addition reactions that are characteristic of ethylene take place. With hydrogen chloride, for example, propylene undergoes electrophilic addition; with hydrogen bromide in the presence of peroxides, it undergoes free-radical addition. CARBON-CARBON DOUBLE BOND AS SUBSTITUENTS More readily than for ethylene