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Hi! is there someone famiilar with organic chem that could readand edit my paragraph about my lab report results. Im havingtrouble making it flow better, but not make it too wordy.

The purpose of this laboratory experiment was to perform an E1hydration reaction of 2-methylcyclohexanol with phosphoric acid inorder to confirm Zaitsev’s rule by generating a mixture of alkeneproducts as depicted in the reaction above. The mixture of productsobtained was analyzed via FTIR and gas chromatography (GC) data.Actual isolation of 8.53 g of the product mixture provided a 44%yield. The low percent yield indicated that 2-methylcyclohexanolwas not fully distilled and that some of the organic layer was leftover after the extraction. The FTIR obtained Csp3-H,Csp2-H, and C=C stretches at 2924 cm-1, 3002cm-1, and ~1650 cm-1 for all three productsrespectively, but revealed C-H bending (-CH3 group) at1439 cm-1 as well as C-H bending (trisubstituted alkene)at 795 cm=1. Based on the GC data, the literature BP formethylenecyclohexane (102-103 °C), 3-methylcyclohexene (104-105°C), 1-methycyclohexene (109-111 °C), corresponded to theirretention times respectively: 1.003 min, 1.376 min, and 1.466 min.It also obtained the relative amounts detected in the mixture ofhaving areas of 166, 367, and 2265 respectively. The GC data alsoconfirmed this compound had the largest area of 2264 (80.3%),indicating it was the most abundant in the mixture. From thesedata, it was concluded the desired product mixtures have beenisolated and that this experiment confirmed Zaitsev’s rule byhaving 1-methylcyclohexene as the major product.

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