Question

What happens when ethanol is oxidized with alkaline potassium permanganate ?Write the equation of the reaction involved

Answer 1

Answer: $CH_3CH_2OH+alkKMnO_4\rightarrow CH_3COOH$

Explanation: Alkaline potassium permanganate is an oxidizing agent due to nascent oxygen which adds oxygen or removes hydrogen and thus oxidizes ethanol to ethanoic acid.

Adding alkaline permanganate to ethanol, the pink colour of potassium permanganate vanishes, as it is being used up for the oxidation process.

$CH_3CH_2OH+alkKMnO_4\rightarrow CH_3COOH$

Answer 2

Answer:

it will become CH3CH2OH GIVES CH3COOH+'H20