Mechanism of reactions of electrophilic substitution at a saturated carbon atom

CONTENTS
I. Introduction 164
II. Bimolecular electrophilic substitution (S_E2) at a saturated carbon atom 164
III. Symmetrisation of organomercury compounds with the aid of diphenylmercury 166
IV. Stereochemistry of the S_E2 reactions 166
V. Unimolecular electrophilic substitution at a saturated carbon atom 166
VI. Anionic catalysis of one-alkyl isotopic exchange 168
VII. Halodemercurations 169
VIII. Protodemercuration 170
IX. "Internal catalysis" in S_E reactions of organomercury compounds 171
X. The reactivity of organomercury compounds of the alkene and aromatic series 173