An you easily make 2-bromobutane from 1-butene? Why and why not?

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Can you easily make a 2-bromobutane from 1-butene? Why and why not?
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1)H30+, heat; this adds alcohol to the most substituted double location
2) HBr, swaps OH for Br

That's pretty easy
 
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