Question

Draw the major organic product(s) of the following reaction (multiple products may be drawn in one box):

Answer 1

Concepts and reason

Preparation of alkene from dehydration of alcohol by using dehydrating agent sulfuric acid ${\rm{(}}{{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{O}}_{\rm{4}}})$ .

Fundamentals

Sulfuric acid ${\rm{(}}{{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{O}}_{\rm{4}}})$ acts as dehydrating agent. Which is used with alcohols to produce the alkenes. High concentration of sulfuric acid ${\rm{(}}{{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{S}}{{\rm{O}}_{\rm{4}}})$ required to produce the major product (i.e. more substituted alkene).

The structure 2-methylbutan-2-ol is,

The reaction is,

Ans:

Thus, the major organic product is,