CSUMB
ESSP 311L
Dr. R. Rinehart

Dehydration of 4-methylcyclohexanol

Expt 23A, p. 224
We will skip the boiling point determination on p. 225, but you will be saving some of your product for an IR spectrum to be taken in the future. You will also perform the unsaturation tests on p. 227.

See an illustrated discussion of a similar experiment by Dan Straus at San Jose State
http://www.4chemistry.org/EXPTE%20htms/EXPTE.htm
http://www.chemistry.sjsu.edu/straus/EXPTE%20htms/EXPTE.htm
See an illustrated discussion of a similar experiment by J. Kofron and J. K. Hardy at the University of Akron
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/organic_lab/cyclo/