Write out a detailed mechanism of the acid catalyzed dehydration of cyclohexanol. use only hydronium as your acid source.

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Jan Ajan · Answer 1 · 2019-10-19T04:50:16+0000

Dehydration means (removal of water molecule) and in this case a double bond is formed by removal of H and OH from two vicinal (neighboring) carbons, this occurs by protonation then lose of water molecule then lose of H⁺ (we have to add H⁺ from acid at the beginning due to OH⁻ is bad leaving group)
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Write out a detailed mechanism of the acid catalyzed dehydration of cyclohexanol. use only hydronium as your acid source.

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