Chemistry A-Level
Elimination reactions
What Elimination reactions means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Elimination reactions
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Reactions in which water is lost from an alcohol and a C=C double bond forms, with H and OH removed from adjacent carbon atoms.
Topics that use Elimination reactions
- Alcohols (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- acid catalysis
- Acidified dichromate(VI) as oxidising agent
- Balancing redox half-equations
- Controlling oxidation products
- Counting carbon neighbours of the –OH-bearing carbon
- Distillation versus reflux
- Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
- Observable colour change as evidence of redox
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