OH Function in Alcohol
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1) What is the major product of dehydration of an alcohol?
2) Why does the simplest ketone have three carbon atoms and no fewer?
3) An alcohol has an OH functionality in it. Do you expect it to be a base? Why, or why not?
4) Name the following:
a) CH3CH2CH(OH)COOH
b) CH3OCH2CH2CH3
c) C4H9O(C=O)CH3
5) When acetic acid reacts with sodium hydroxide, what are the two products that are formed?
6) Why do amines exhibit high solubility in water?
7) What are amine salts?
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The solution discusses the functional group alcohol. The major product of dehydration is determined.
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1) What is the major product of dehydration of an alcohol?
When you remove H2O from an alcohol, you end up with a double bond. Therefore, the product is an alkene, a hydrocarbon with a double bond. Check this out:
R-CH2-CH-R (the alcohol) -------> R-CH=CH-R (the alkene) + H2O
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OH
2) Why does the simplest ketone have three carbon atoms and no fewer?
A ketone is made up of this structure:
O
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R-C-R
The simplest one is therefore,
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