What exactly is the Carbocation reaction?

Question

Is the dicyclohexyl ether from by carbocation reaction?

uhm.. sorry some body.. ur right... this is suppose to have connection about the preparation of cyclohexene (like my other questions before) but i forgot to put details..

Cyclohexanol ==catalyst==> cyclohexene + dicyclohexyl ether + water

im just wondering what makes oxygen bond to another cyclohexanol which gives out the -OH group. I know its because of the the phosphoric acid. but which one of the types of carbocation process happened in the reaction?

Answer 1

You'd need to mention what starting materials you're using to form the dicyclohexyl ether from, we're chemists here, not psychics. In general, reactions that go through an intermediate where there are only three bonds on a carbon, and hence it is a cation, are what you're thinking about. If you restate your question a little more clearly we can help you more.