Question: Problem 1-11 (Level 2) Styrene, the monomeric building block for the polymer polystyrene, is made by the catalytic dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene. Ethyl benzene, in


Problem 1-11 (Level 2) Styrene, the monomeric building block for the polymer polystyrene, is made by the catalytic dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene. Ethyl benzene, in turn, is made by the alkylation of benzene with ethylene, as shown by Reaction (A) below. A common side reaction is that addition of another alkyl group to ethyl benzene to form diethyl benzene. This reaction is shown as Reaction (B). The second alkyl group may be in the ortho, meta, or para position. 2. Develop an alternative hypothesis that is consistent with all of the data, and demonstrate this consistency
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