Chem 51LB Report Ngoc Tran - Student ID # 72048507 The purpose of this lab is to examine the composition of three components of gas products of elimination reaction under acidic condition by conducting the dehydration of primary and secondary alcohol, and under basic condition by conducting the base-induced dehydrobromination of 1-bromobutane and 2-bromobutane. Then gas chromatography is used to analyze the composition of the product mixtures. Gas chromatography (mobile phase) is used to analyze the composition of three components of the gas products. A syringe needle with gas product is injected into the machine, and the component is eluted and the composition is related to the column or the peaks. In this experiment, dehydration and dehydrobromination …show more content…
A syringe needle with gas product is injected into the machine, and the component is eluted and the composition is related to the column or the peaks. In this experiment, dehydration and dehydrobromination undergo the elimination reaction, which includes E1 and E2 reaction. E1 is unimolecular elimination, which is removing H-X substituent to form a double bonds. The mechanism of E1 reaction includes 2 steps, formation of carbocation and deprotonation. E2 is bimolecular elimination, which is the removal of two substituent groups to form an alkene. The hydrogen removed must be anti to the leaving group. The mechanism of E2 reaction has only one steps, which is displacement of leaving group by removing hydrogen. The rate of the E1 elimination is based on substrate only, while it depends on both substrate and base in E2 elimination. E1 elimination is favored by weak base and ptotic solvents, while E2 is favored by strong base, high concentration of nucleophile and aprotic solvents. The major product of E2 elimination is the more substituent alkene, while the products of E1 elimination are trans-cis alkene and terminal