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Ch.5 Chemical Reactions

Chapter 2, Problem 5.73b

Fill in the missing organic product or reactant for the following hydration reactions:


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Welcome back everyone. What is the starting material needed for the hydration reaction? Below? A hydration reaction involves an alchem which undergoes a reaction with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid to produce an alcohol. And specifically, whenever we went to identify the type of that alchem, we want to dehydrate the alcohol, we want to go in reverse. First of all, we have to identify the o age group. And then if we locate the carbon atom that has a wage bonded to it, there are two neighboring carbons and those carbons are beta carbons that contain beta hydrogens. What we want to do is simply perform an elimination reaction of those hygen. Now, which hygen should we choose? Well, first of all, we noticed that there is an internal plane of symmetry passing through the alcohol. So all of those hygen are basically equivalent to each other, meaning no matter which one we remove, we will be able to arrive at the same keen and there is only one structure that works for us. So we're going to remove one of the hydrogen atoms. Now we're going to form a pi bond and then remove the oh, so overall, our LK would consist of a five member grain and a pipe band. Whenever that LL Kane reacts with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid, we are adding hydrogen to one of our carbons and a wage to the other to arrive at that specific alcohol. And that's how we have got the final structure. Thank you for watching.