keliao Full Member 10+ Year Member 15+ Year Member Oct 11, 2008 #1 Advertisement - Members don't see this ad with K2Cr2O7/H+ will the product be a carboxylic acid instead of pentane?? because i know that if it was ethane...it will be oxidized to carboxylic acid..
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad with K2Cr2O7/H+ will the product be a carboxylic acid instead of pentane?? because i know that if it was ethane...it will be oxidized to carboxylic acid..
chessxwizard Full Member 10+ Year Member 15+ Year Member Oct 11, 2008 #2 Benzoic acid Upvote 0 Downvote
keliao Full Member 10+ Year Member 15+ Year Member Oct 11, 2008 #3 yes a benzoic acid . so it doest matter how many carbons are there?? octane, nonane.?? Upvote 0 Downvote
2009er Full Member 10+ Year Member 15+ Year Member Oct 11, 2008 #4 it will always make benzoic acid regardless of how long the substituent chain is! Upvote 0 Downvote
chessxwizard Full Member 10+ Year Member 15+ Year Member Oct 11, 2008 #6 It doesn't matter how many carbons. K2Cr2O7 is such a strong oxidizing agent it turns it into a carboxylic acid no matter what the carbon length. Upvote 0 Downvote
It doesn't matter how many carbons. K2Cr2O7 is such a strong oxidizing agent it turns it into a carboxylic acid no matter what the carbon length.
