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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > January  >
In the Classroom
Resources for Student Assessment
Solving the Mathematics of a Kinetic and Regiochemical Problem: The Dehydration Reaction of a cis-trans Mixture of 2-Methylcycloalkanols
John J. Cawley
Villanova University, Department of Chemistry, Villanova, PA 19085
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January 1999
Vol. 76 No. 1
p. 58
Abstract
A take-home exam is presented. It is based on an experiment that studied the dehydration of a cis-trans mixture of 2-methylcyclohexanols. The "givens" are the idealized kinetic and regiochemical data. The focus is strictly on the mathematics, not the experimental details.The goal is to calculate six specific rate constants using a little ingenuity and some fundamental mathematics, to show that the Saytzeff elimination rule is followed for the dehydration of each of the two reactant isomeric alcohols.
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*  Citation
 Cawley, John J. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 58.
*  Keywords
 Organic Chemistry; Kinetics; Stereochemistry; Problem-Based Learning
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Last Updated:		 June 15, 1999
June 22, 2005
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