Week 2 Problem set 30BL
ATTN: answers to the below questions are due at the start of your lab period; these answers should be part of your pre-lab write-up.
1. Outline a detailed mechanism for the acid-catalyzed dehydration of cyclohexanol. help?
2. What is the limiting reagent in this week's experiment? help?
3. What is the expected alkene product formed from the dehydration of the following alcohols? Show major products only.
4. What do you obtain if you dehydrate phenol (C6H5OH)?
5. What qualitative tests will be carried out in this experiment to determine the presence of a double bond in the final product? (see course reader). Show the reactions including the stereochemistry of the products.
6. Supply a mechanism that explains the formation of 1-methylcyclopentene from 1-cyclobutylethanol in the presence of sulfuric acid.
7. What is the function of the sodium hydroxide solution in the benzoin experiment?
8. How can you purify benzaldehyde?
