Question

what is the process of converting propanol to propanoic acid?

Answer 1

Propanol is an alcohol. Propanoic acid is a carboxylic acid.

Propanol is converted into propanoic acid by an oxidation reaction, where catalysts such as potassium dichromate and potassium permanganate are used.

$C_{3} H_{7} OH ---\ \textgreater \ C_{2} H_{5} COOH ( K_{2} Cr_{2}O_{7}  is the catalyst )$ 

Answer 2

Propanol can be converted to propanoic acid by the oxidation process. Propanol  is oxidised with one of the strong oxidising agents that acts as catalysts such as acidic permanganate (- H+ / MnO4-), acidic dichromate (- H+ / Cr2O72-), acidic chromate ion (- H+ / CrO42-).

The chemical equation to convert propanol to propanoic acid is  

                  H+/KMnO4

C3H70H    ----------------->  C2H5COOH