Why is distillation used to separate product from the reaction mixture? One or m

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Why is distillation used to separate product from the reaction mixture? One or more answers are correct and you will receive negative points for incorrect answers.

The boiling point of pinacolone is much lower than that of pinacol, so distillation is effective way to separate the two.

Removing the product drives the equilibria towards producing more product.

The water, which is also distilled off, is easily removed from pinacolone since they are immiscible.

Distillation effectively separates the two products, water and pinacolone, from each other.

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Here, the correct statements are,

The boiling point of pinacolone is much lower than that of pinacol, so distillation is effective way to separate the two.

Removing the product drives the equilibria towards producing more product.

The water, which is also distilled off, is easily removed from pinacolone since they are immiscible.

The last statement is incorrect, since distillation will not effectively separate water and pinacolone. They should be separated after distillation.

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