The hydration of an alkene by an acid is one of those fundamental reactions, taught early on in most chemistry courses. What can quantum mechanics teach us about the mechanism of the reaction?
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Emeritus Professor of computational chemistry, Imperial College London. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-8390
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