Purpose The object of this experiment was to reduce the ketone group of a cycloalkane into an alcohol group. This reduction forms cis and trans isomers and the experiment intended to determine which was more favorable. Analysis The object of this experiment was to reduce the ketone group of 2-methylcyclohexanone to form 2-methylcyclohexanol (see figure 1 below). Infrared spectroscopy, an important analytical technique, was introduced to examine the purity of the product. Infrared spectroscopy analyzes a chemical’s transmittance over a […]
