Question

What's the end product of oxidation of acetylene?

Answer 1

Acetylene reacts with Cold KMnO4 to form formic acid and on reaction with hot KMnO4 it forms Oxalic acid. Hello, the product formed would be oxalic acid. The triple bond present in ethyne is oxidised by KMnO4, adding two groups of -OH on each carbon.

Answer 2

Answer:

The end product of the oxidation of acetylene is oxalic acid.

Explanation:

The formula of oxalic acid is (C2H2O4).

The reaction between acetylene and oxygen gives rise to traces of acrolein, glyoxalic acid, oxalic acid, and hydrogen peroxide.

The consumption of acetylene has been involve in two major reactions representing the two modes of attack of the proposed main chain carrier, OH, on the molecule, namely abstraction, and addition.

The abstraction reaction can be ignored and the course of the oxidation of acetylene can be described by a degenerately branched chain reaction with glyoxal as the important branching agent.

Oxalic acid is an organic compound found in plants, including leafy greens, vegetables, fruits, cocoa, nuts, and seeds.