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Offline zeldatimo

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Help With Alcohol Reactions?
« on: February 27, 2010, 05:26:15 PM »
I'm new to this reaction stuff so i'm not too sure yet how it works. I need to know what products are formed when tert-butyl alcohol reacts with these four 1. KMnO4 2. HCl 3. Propanoic Acid 4. Na Metal
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Re: Help With Alcohol Reactions?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 01:49:28 PM »
 1-You know KMnO4 is a oxideizing agent.but tert-butyl alcohol don't oxidize because it is a tertiary alcohol.
 2-with any acid,this alcohol will protonate and occur tert-butyl hidroksonium cation.
3-Alcohols react with carboxcylic acids to give esters.İn this reaction a H2O molecules leave and this is a condensation reaction.
4-Alcohols react with Na to give H2(g) and Sodium tert-butoxide.
 
 I hope ı am not wrong.You can find more details in any organic chemistry book.

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