Can carbocation rearrangements have kinetic and thermodynamic products? [closed]








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As the figure in this [webpage](https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/tips/kinetic-thermodynamic/) says, at low temperatures, the major product of hydrohalogenation of 1,3-butadiene is the kinetic product, the 1,2-addition product. At high temperatures, the major product is the thermodynamic product, the 1,4-addition product, in which the pi electrons have transferred to the inner carbon skeleton to form a more substituted alkene product. **The carbocation rearranged due to resonance.** 


However, as the figure below from David Klein's Organic Chemistry 2e book tells us--the major hydrohalogenation product of 3-methyl-1-butene is the rearrangement product, which is the more stable product. **Here, the carbocation rearranged due to its inherent stability at highly substituted carbons.** The temperature of the reaction was not specified. 


[![hydrochlorination of 3-methyl-1-butene](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JAliQ.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JAliQ.png)


**My questions are:**


* Is it safe to assume that the hydrochlorination of 3-methyl-1-butene give a product ratio as shown in the figure at all temperatures (except at temperatures where decomposition may occur, if it can)?
* Do alkene addition reactions also have thermodynamic and kinetic control, like the butadiene reaction exhibited, or is the thermo and kinetic product production only due to resonance?
* Can carbocation rearrangements have kinetic and thermodynamic products, like the one for the hydrohalogenation of butadiene?


