During distillation, the temperature at which the first drop was recorded was at 66oC and plateaued at 70oC. Although cyclohexene has a boiling point of 83oC, the decrease in the boiling point could have been to the impurities of the mixture, which was later washed out. Although human error in the placement if the thermometer could have been the reason of the lower temperature recorded. The initial mass was 2.013g with a final mass after distillation was 0.722 g. The percent yield was 35.9%, which was caused by the removal of the alcohol into water. The water was then removed from the cyclohexene via washing.
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