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Offline Mounia88

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menthol to cycloalkene
« on: October 27, 2007, 09:06:33 AM »
can anyone plzz post the products that we obtain from the dehydration of menthol i searched everywher and i can't find their cyclic representation ??? ???
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Re: menthol to cycloalkene
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2007, 11:40:25 AM »
Try to look under "chemical properties" in the wikipedia-link i've posted below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol

There you have the major dehydration product, obtained be treatment with dilute sulfuric acid. A minor dehydration product is the less substituted alkene (see jpeg attached)
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Re: menthol to cycloalkene
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2007, 12:32:24 PM »
i found this but i'm looking for the minor ones if you can find them it would be gr8
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