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(10 pts) How do you know if an alkene and halogen produces a monohaloalkane or a dihaloalkane?
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Addition across a double bond saturates the molecule.  So if you add something like H-X, you will get a monohaloalkane.  If you add the element, X-X, you will get a dihaloalkane.

And, the lovely little complication of adding H-X, is the possibility of anti-Markovnikov and Markovnikov addition.  Instructors love those complications for test questions.
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