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Why do we get a meso compound on addition of bromine to trans -2-butene rather than enantiomers?

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Assertion : Addition of bromine to trans-2-butene yields meso-2, 3-dibromobutane

Reason : Bromine addition to an alkene is an electrophilic addition.

Q. Statement-I : Addition of bromine to trans-2-butene yields meso-2,3-dibromobutane.
Because
Statement-II : Bromine addition to an alkene is an electrophilic addition.

C i s

-2-butene gives

m e s o

-2,3-butanediol with dilute alkaline

K M n O_{4}

solution. Reason: Dilute alkaline

K M n O_{4}

solution given trans addition with alkenes.

Q. The addition of

{B r}_{2}

to trans 2-butene produces:

Q. Ionic addition of bromine to

c i s - 2 - b u t e n e

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