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Questions whose main focus is on E1, E2, E1cb, or any other type of elimination reaction.

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Determine mechanism: E1 vs. E2

The only catch I find in this question is that, it’s given that you are using methanol as your solvent and that’s a protic solvent . It will be the case that the base $\ce{OH^{-}}$ would be solvated …
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Major product in dehydration of alcohol

be protonated first in order for it to leave and moreover it is a very fast leaving group (also we have the case that $\ce{HSO_{4}^{-}}$ or $\ce{H_{2}O}$ are very weak bases and considering that only elimination … reactions occur tells us that it must follow an E1 elimination). …
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