Our reseach has developed a parabolic reflector to thermally drive reactions by solar irradiation. This work shows that the same application can be used to dehydrate alcohols to their corrseponding alkenes. Over twenty different alcohols have been tried. The overall reaction yields and general procedure will be discussed. Solid alcohols at room temperature have also been tried. The characterization of the products formed and the scope of the process will be discussed.

Dehydration of alcohols by solar irradiation

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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