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How will you convert ethanol into ethene?

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To convert ethanol (C2H5OH) into ethene (C2H4), we can follow a dehydration reaction process. Here’s a step-by-step solution: ### Step 1: Prepare Ethanol Start with ethanol, which has the chemical formula C2H5OH. ### Step 2: Use a Dehydrating Agent To convert ethanol into ethene, we need to remove a water molecule (H2O) from ethanol. This can be achieved by using a strong dehydrating agent. Common dehydrating agents include concentrated sulfuric acid (H2SO4) or concentrated phosphoric acid (H3PO4). ...
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  2. What is the order of reactivity of HCl, HBr and HI with alcohols?

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  3. How will you convert ethanol into ethene?

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  4. Explain the relative ease of dehydration of alcohols as : tertiary gt ...

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  5. Name a reagent which converts primary alcohols exclusively to correspo...

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  6. Name the main product obtained when vapour of tert-butyl alcohol are p...

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  7. Vapours of an alcohol 'C' on passing over heated copper produce compou...

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  8. name one reagent which is used for the distinction of primary, seconda...

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  9. Arrange the following alcohols in order of increasing reactivity towar...

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  10. Which of the following alcohols give iodoform test?

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  11. How will you distinguish between 1-phenylethanol and 2-pheylethanol ?

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  12. What is rectified spirit?

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  13. Absolute alcohol is

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  14. Power alcohol is :

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  15. Why can't rectified spirit be converted into absolute by simple distil...

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  16. Why boiling pointsof phenols are higher than those of the correspondin...

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  17. Why are phenols more acidic than alcohols. Give two reactions to show ...

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  18. Of the two hydroxy organic compounds ROH and R'OH, the first one is ba...

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  19. Arrannge the following is order of decreasing acid strength: CH(3)OH,H...

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  20. Give one reaction to show that phenol is acidic in character.

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