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In this problem, we're looking at an elimination reaction.
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And like the name suggests, we're going to be eliminating a group off of a molecule.
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Now, here we're told we're looking at this type of reaction with an alcohol.
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So, in other words, r represents our carbon chain, and then we're going to have an oh.
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So this is our alcohol group.
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And if we think through this, if we want to eliminate this, think about alcohol is a leaf.
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Group.
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And the reality is this is pretty stable.
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So it's a really poor leaving group.
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But we can use other reactions in order to make it a better leaving group so that it's more willing to break off.
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So our first step here is going to be turning this into a better leaving group...