Neopentyl alcohol, (ch3)3cch2oh, cannot be dehydrated to an alkene without rearrangement. what is the chief product of dehydrati
on?
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Dehydration is removal of water.
In alcohols dehydration is α-β elimination or 1,2 elimination, it means the hydroxyl group will be removed from α-carbon while the hydrogen will be removed from near by carbon.
In case of neopentyl alcohol there is no β hydrogen present on the β carbon [as shown in figure].
The only possible way for it to undergo dehydration is by rearrangement.
The process or mechanism can be understood as:
so the chief product is 2-methylbut-2-ene
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In this case, since we are considering an gas, which can be considered as idea, we can write the ideal gas equation in order to write it in terms of density rather than moles and volume:
Whereas MM is the molar mass of the gas. Now, since we can identify the initial and final states, we can cancel out R and MM since they remain the same:
It means we can compute the final density as shown below:
Now, we plug in to obtain:
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