Chemistry A-Level
Controlling oxidation products
What Controlling oxidation products means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The product of oxidising a primary alcohol is controlled by the reaction conditions, giving an aldehyde with distillation or a carboxylic acid with reflux and excess oxidising agent.
Topics that use Controlling oxidation products
- Alcohols (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- acid catalysis
- Acidified dichromate(VI) as oxidising agent
- Balancing redox half-equations
- Counting carbon neighbours of the –OH-bearing carbon
- Distillation versus reflux
- Elimination reactions
- Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
- Observable colour change as evidence of redox
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