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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