Talk:Dehydration reaction

Say what?
-OH2+ ???
 * Yes. Protonated hydroxyl. Double sharp (talk) 13:04, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Vote of little or no confidence
Removed some nonsense, but haven't the time to move this article toward being trustworthy. Trust at WP comes from sources. The list of reactions is largely unsourced as a whole—how do we know it is representative of what an expert would present, that it does not contain poor or incorrect examples, or omit important ones? Various observations suggest, (a) that people presented what they could wikilink to or find a WikiMedia image to represent, and (b) that this compilation is an off-top-of-head (literally, stream of thought) WP editors' list.

In terms of glaring omissions, the examples of amide bond synthesis, and the relationship of this class to condensations are two clear things that any basic presentation should include—don't go now and add it, read on (for why I don't, in the the five minutes I have on this).

In 2017, after more than a decade of time on chemistry articles, here, there is no excuse to continue to allow this sort of article composition of organic chemistry articles. Every advanced ochem book covers this subject, as do all the good undergraduate texts (e.g., Claden). No further content should be allowed in this article, unless accompanied by a valid and complete (verifiable) citation. And say no to inserting any old happenstance class web page—yes only to good secondary or text sources. Enough of this WP:OR and just trust us writing.

Until then, a reader with no experience in real chemistry should have no confidence that any sentence of this is what they should be reading on the subject. Get ANY good university gen chem, ochem, or biochem textbook, or any good online source, and start there instead. 73.210.155.96 (talk) 18:33, 29 March 2017 (UTC)