Acid-catalyzed dehydration of ethanol

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jgcodes2020 opened this issue 8 months ago · 1 comments

jgcodes2020 commented 8 months ago

A well known way to obtain ethylene (IUPAC: ethene) is by dehydrating ethanol with concentrated H2SO4.

This would give a "green" route to ethylene.

petrolpark · Answer 1 · 2024-02-23T18:03:57.000Z

Added in 1.0, for any generic alcohol (not just ethanol).