An alkene can be converted to an alcohol upon reaction with Hg(OAc)2 in H2O followed by NaBH4. In the boxes, draw the mechanism arrows for the reaction below. You do not have to do the mechanism for the

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An alkene can be converted to an alcohol upon reaction with Hg(OAc)2 in H2O followed by NaBH4. In the boxes, draw the mechanism arrows for the reaction below. You do not have to do the mechanism for the NaBH4 reaction. Be sure to add lone pairs of electrons and nonzero formal charges to all species.