List the products of each alcohol reaction. b.

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Welcome back, everyone determine the product formed in the reaction below the starting material that we have is a primary alcohol. Specifically. We can see that the alcohol group oh is bonded to a primary carbon. So we can classify this as a primary alcohol and it reacts with number one potassium dichromate. And number two sulfuric acid, we have to recognize that these two steps essentially represent an oxidation reaction. Since potassium dichromate is a strong oxidizing agent and strong oxidizing agents oxidize primary alcohols into corresponding carboxylic acids. In order to get our product, we simply are going to add a carbonyl group to turn our primary alcohol into carboxylic acid. So, what we're going to do is just read through our carbon chain. We're going to add the alcohol group and we're simply going to introduce a double bond with oxygen on the carbon atom that has the alcohol group, right? And this gives us a carboxyl group. So we have successfully obtained the carboxylic acid product for this problem. Thank you for watching.