SEE PROBLEM 6 BELOW FIRST 2. Below is a gas chromatogram of your alkene product

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SEE PROBLEM 6 BELOW FIRST 2. Below is a gas chromatogram of your alkene product mixture. Peaks on the left correspond to compounds that elute before (come off the column before) compounds on the right. On the figure label P1 and P2. not Dehya By Y.Lee P3 hb ecovide a possble strmecture for 4. A third, very minor alkene product P3 (see Figure) elutes before either P1 or P2. Based on you mechanism in Ouestion 5 of the prelab. provide a possible structure for the mvsterv product and a 5. If you wanted to prepare P1 in high yield via alcohol dehydration, is 2-methylcyclohexanol the ideal starting material? If not, what alcohol starting material would be better? 6. The dehydration reaction you performed in this lab is really an equilibrium (see below). With Le Chatelier's principle in mind, would the reaction be helped, hindered or unaffected by addition of water as a reaction solvent? Hint: balance the reaction below P1 P2 CH3 CH3 CH3 OH H3PO4

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In this reaction H3PO4 is used as an dehydrating agent with alkene and water as end product. If water is added to reaction mixture, then this being an equillibrium reaction, it moves towards the side to diminish the stress. Hence the reaction moves backward. This is according to le chatelier principle.

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