Reacting water with an alkene produces an alcohol. The catalyst is phosphoric acid, and this occcurs at 300oC.
Definitely not hydrolysis. This is an addition reaction.
I think an addition reaction contains subsets of other various reactions.
Because an addition reaction could be
- Hydrogenation (addition of hydrogen)
- Hydration (addition of water)
- Halogenation (addition of a group 7 atom)
I think Blondie21 is confused about how the water is being
added , but it's not referred to as a
hydration reaction. A
hydrolysis reaction is breaking something by adding H20. So if you can see, both hydration and hydrolysis reactions contain water as their
reactants.
That's just the way I see it haha, I'm not too sure myself