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Dehydration of alcohol take place more rapidlywith `POCL_(3)`then with `H_(2)SO_(4)`. Select the correct statements about the following dehydration reaction :

A

It does not involve carbocation .

B

It involves R-`OPOCl_(2)" with " -OPOCl_(2)`as a better leaving group.

C

It involves E2 mechanism as pyridine base abstracts proton from the adjacent carbon as the same time at which -`OPOCl_(2)` is leaving .

D

It is E1 reaction without formation of carboction.

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a,b,c
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