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Chemistry Help?!?

A year ago, a fire broke out at industrial plant destroying the entire facility. Many organic chemicals were used in the facility and ecologists were concerned about the possible leakage of these chemicals into the surrounding ecosystem. A survey of local
wildlife has shown a significant decrease in the population of a certain bird species that eats seeds. Ecologists are concerned that chemicals from the plant may have found their way into the plant and to the seeds, possibly poisoning the birds.
- One compound present in the facility was discovered on the seeds in unusually high concentrations: trans-3-hexene. Draw the structure of this molecule.
- Further analysis shows that trans-3-hexene migrated to the surface of the seeds
where it became exposed to water and heat from sunlight. Assuming that there
was enough energy to initiate a reaction with trans-3-hexene, what is the structure
and name of the hydration product?

trans-3-hexene has the base of hexene and so it has 6 carbon atoms. The fact that it is hexene instead of hexane indicates the presence of a double bond. This double bond is found between carbons 3 and 4 (hence the 3 after trans). The term trans refers to the geometric isomerism of the bond, more specifically a trans compound has “similar” groups diagonally opposed to each other, that is, alkyl groups will be diagonally opposed from one another. This should lead you to the appropriate structure of trans-3-hexene. If not, check www.chemfinder.com and you’ll find a structure. When the substrate above is hydrated, as the name implies, water is “added” to the molecule. That is the double bond will become a single bond and one carbon of the double bond will have an alcohol added to it (OH) while the other carbon will have a hydrogen atom added to it. The approrpiate name of the correspoding hydration product is 3-hexanol.

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