Ring Strain Iodine crystals are poured into a large cylinder. Like most alkenes, cyclohexene reacts only sluggishly with iodine. But when -pinene is poured into iodine, the exothermic reaction vaporizes iodine. The extra energy comes from relief of ring strain in the -pinene molecules. Next movie for this topic Back to topics page The name of this movie is IODENEA.MOV and is located in the directory/folder named MOVIES/RINGSTR. If your browser has not brought the movie into the above space (you might be running a version of Netscape earlier than 3.0 or not have the proper plug-in), clicking on the following will possibly access the movie. Play movie.
Iodine crystals are poured into a large cylinder. Like most alkenes, cyclohexene reacts only sluggishly with iodine. But when -pinene is poured into iodine, the exothermic reaction vaporizes iodine. The extra energy comes from relief of ring strain in the -pinene molecules.
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