What type of compound is formed when a secondary (2) alcohol is ...

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What type of compound is formed when a secondary (2) alcohol is treated with Jones' reagent?
  A)
  an alkene
  B)
  an alkyne
  C)
  an aldehyde
  D)
  a ketone
  E)
  a carboxylic acid

Question 2

The rate-determining step in the following reaction is:
   
 
   
  A)
  protonation of the alcohol
  B)
  ionization of the alcohol to give a carbocation.
  C)
  loss of water from the protonated alcohol to give a carbocation
  D)
  capture of a carbocation by bromide ion.
  E)
  displacement of water from the protonated alcohol by bromide ion.

Question 3

The rate-determining step in the following reaction is:
   
 
   
  A)
  protonation of the alcohol.
  B)
  ionization of the alcohol to give a carbocation.
  C)
  loss of water from the protonated alcohol to give a carbocation.
  D)
  capture of a carbocation by bromide ion.
  E)
  displacement of water from the protonated alcohol by bromide ion.

Question 4

Which statement is false? Tert-Butyl alcohol reacts
  A)
  with HCl to give 2-methylpropene by an E1 mechanism.
  B)
  with HCl to give 2-chloro-2-methylpropane by an S_N1 mechanism.
  C)
  with HCl and HBr at very different rates.
  D)
  with HCl or HBr to give a carbocation intermediate.
  E)
  with HCl to give both 2-methylpropene and 2-chloro-2-methylpropane.

[Carissamariew]

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

e

Answer to Question 3

c

Answer to Question 4

c

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