how will you prepare ethnic acid from ethane
Answers
Answered by
1
There can be many way of synthesis of ethanoic acid from ethane one method is being described here :-
Reaction of ethane with chlorine in presence of sunlight produces chloroethane ,even traces of chlorine molecules are sufficient to carry out the reaction and to production of chloroethane which on reaction with aqueous KOH produce ethanol which on oxidation with strong oxidizing agent like KMnO4 produces ethanoic acid
Reaction of ethane with chlorine in presence of sunlight produces chloroethane ,even traces of chlorine molecules are sufficient to carry out the reaction and to production of chloroethane which on reaction with aqueous KOH produce ethanol which on oxidation with strong oxidizing agent like KMnO4 produces ethanoic acid
Similar questions