Dehydration of 2-Butanol: Products and Abundance in E1 Reaction

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what are the products when 2-butanol undergoes E1 derhydration? which is the most abundant?
 
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3 alkenes are obtained. cis-but-2-ene, trans-but-2-ene, and but-1-ene. and I think the trans isomers will be the most abundant..
 

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