Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Alcohols Dehydration

Dehydration

When alcohols are heated with conc. or H3PO4, at 443 K, they get dehydrated to form alkenes.

The ease of dehydration of alcohol follows the order 3>2>1 which is also the order of stability of carbocation.
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