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When we react ethanol with concentrated sulphuric acid at temperature 443k it forms ethene while we react ethanol with concentrated sulphuric acid at temperature 413K why it is forms Ether please explain through mechanism of reaction.

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Arun

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Ethanol undergoes dehydration when treated with Conc H2SO4.

Dehydration can occur in two ways

  1. at 140 degree centigrade temperatures

At this temperature, two molecules of alcohol lose a water molecule and give Diethyle ether as product (C2H5-O-C2H5)

  1. At 170 degree centrigrade temperatures

At this temperatures, each molecule of alcohol loses a water molecule and give ethene as a product (C2H4).

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