What Is a Dehydration Reaction

question 37

Multiple Choice

What is a dehydration reaction?

• A) Dehydration is elimination of water molecule from an alcohol molecule to produce alkene.
• B) Dehydration reaction is removal of one equivalent of H₂ from an alkane to produce alkene.
• C) Dehydration reaction is one of the steps in chain-reaction polymerization.
• D) Dehydration reaction is removal of crystalline water.
• E) Dehydration reaction is deprotonation of a substrate with a strong base in E2 mechanism.

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