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ERIC Number: EJ1444081
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Aug
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0021-9584
EISSN: EISSN-1938-1328
Revisiting Elimination Reactions in the Pentanol and Bromopentane Series
Rameez Raza; Connor Pattison; Wen Zhou; Lucas Clarke; Devin Latimer; Nabyl Merbouh
Journal of Chemical Education, v100 n8 p2999-3007 2023
While elimination reactions are ubiquitous in organic chemistry textbooks, their implementation in undergraduate laboratories still suffers from a lack of reliable and easy setup procedures. This paper describes an easy-to-implement set of elimination experiments in the pentanol and bromopentane series using a modified Hickman distillation head. These experiments expose the students to elimination reactions under acidic and basic conditions while analyzing the reaction mixture to determine the stereochemistry of the final products. Additionally, the new safe and green design of these two experiments makes them attractive to implement in large enrollment organic chemistry teaching laboratories in addition to the experiments already available in such settings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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