Thursday 16 May 2013

3.12 describe the dehydration of ethanol to ethene, using aluminium oxide.

C2H5OH > C2H4 + H2O

ethanol > ethene + water

aluminium oxide is the catalyst for this reaction.

4 comments:

  1. thank you so much! am revising chemistry and can't seem to find my notes for this anywhere so this really helped! x

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  2. I have my Chemistry exams tomorrow morning, and your blog has proved very useful for quick revision!
    Thanks a lot, and cheers from Bangladesh! :)

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  3. Is this a reversible reaction? also, can phosphoric acid be used as a catalyst?

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  4. Phosphoric acid is used in the hydration of ethene to form ethenol. For the dehydration of ethenol aluminium Oxide is used.

    hope this helps :-)

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