Problem: Which would you expect to be more soluble in water, cyclohexane or dioxane?

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Which would you expect to be more soluble in water, cyclohexane or dioxane? Dioxane is a six-membered ring with O at both points (each O has two pairs of dots) and CH2 at all other vertices. Cyclohexane is a six-membered ring composed of all CH2s.

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