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Explain Anti-Markovnikov’s addition or peroxide effect or Kharasch-Mayo effect.

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Explain Anti-Markovnikov’s addition or peroxide effect or Kharasch-Mayo effect.

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In 1933, M. S. Kharasch and F. R. Mayo discovered that the addition of HBr to unsymmetrical alkene in the presence of organic peroxide (R-O-O-R) takes place in the opposite orientation to that suggested by Markovnikov’s rule.

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