Question

How the following conversion can be carried out? Ethyl chloride to propanoic acid

Answer 1

oxidation reaction bro ..in the presence of oxidizing agent..such as alkaline kmno4 and acidified potassium di chromate

Answer 2

According to the given details, the precise explanation of this following conversion is mentioned below.

The reaction is about Toluene to benzyl alcohol.  

 

It is theoretically made from the oxidation process.  Most significantly, it can be considered as the intermediate on a way to aldehyde.

Though, the alcohol is oxidized to aldehyde and after that to carboxylic acid.

The secondary oxidations processes are simpler to perform when compared with the first one.