Chemistry A-Level
Resistance of tertiary alcohols to oxidation
What Resistance of tertiary alcohols to oxidation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Resistance of tertiary alcohols to oxidation
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In a tertiary alcohol the carbon bearing the –OH group carries no hydrogen atom, so this loss cannot happen and the alcohol resists oxidation by acidified potassium dichromate(VI).
Topics that use Resistance of tertiary alcohols to oxidation
- Alcohols (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- acid catalysis
- Acidified dichromate(VI) as oxidising agent
- Balancing redox half-equations
- Controlling oxidation products
- Counting carbon neighbours of the –OH-bearing carbon
- Distillation versus reflux
- Elimination reactions
- Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
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