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Why is the conversion of ethanol to ethanoic acid considered an oxidation reaction?write oxidising agent
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Meghna Thapar 5 years, 2 months ago

The conversion of ethanol to ethanoic acid is as follows:
CH3​CH2​OH+KMnO4​(Alkaline)→CH3​COOH
If you see the above change carefully you will notice that this in this change one extra O atom is been added and two H atoms are being removed from ethanol molecule to convert it into ethanoic acid.Addition of O and removal of H is known as oxidation.

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