Oxidation of Alcohols
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What do primary alcohols oxidise to?
aldehydes
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Where do the molecules for H2O come from?
oxygen is gotten from the oxidising agent and the hydrogen comes from the carbon
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What do aldehydes oxidise to?
carboxylic acid
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What do secondary alcohols oxidise to?
ketones
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Why don’t ketones usually oxidise further?
due to the arrangement, no hydrogens are attached to the carbonyl group
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Why is it hard to oxidise tertiary alcohols?
due to the arrangement, the carbon attached to the hydroxyl group isn’t attached to any other hydrogens
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