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

The purpose of this laboratory experiment was to perform an E1 hydration reaction of 2-methylcyclohexanol with phosphoric acid in order to confirm Zaitsev’s rule by generating a mixture of alkene products as depicted in the reaction above. The mixture of products obtained 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-methylcyclohexanol was not fully distilled and that some of the organic layer was left over after the extraction. The FTIR obtained Csp³-H, Csp²-H, and C=C stretches at 2924 cm^-1, 3002 cm^-1, and ~1650 cm^-1 for all three products respectively, but revealed C-H bending (-CH₃ group) at 1439 cm^-1 as well as C-H bending (trisubstituted alkene) at 795 cm⁼¹. Based on the GC data, the literature BP for methylenecyclohexane (102-103 °C), 3-methylcyclohexene (104-105 °C), 1-methycyclohexene (109-111 °C), corresponded to their retention times respectively: 1.003 min, 1.376 min, and 1.466 min. It also obtained the relative amounts detected in the mixture of having areas of 166, 367, and 2265 respectively. The GC data also confirmed this compound had the largest area of 2264 (80.3%), indicating it was the most abundant in the mixture. From these data, it was concluded the desired product mixtures have been isolated and that this experiment confirmed Zaitsev’s rule by having 1-methylcyclohexene as the major product.

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