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Ch.21 - Organic Chemistry

Chapter 21, Problem 73d

List the products of each alcohol reaction. d.

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Hello everyone today. We are being asked to identify the organic product of the reaction below. So the first thing we want to make note in this situation is what kind of structure we are dealing with. And we are dealing with a primary alcohol. And we can say that because this hydroxyl group is only attached to one another carbon atom. And so we see that we are reacting this with sodium chrome eight and hydrogen sulfide are still fate. And so whenever we have a primary alcohol and sodium crow mate, we're going to form a car box silic acid. And so why is that? This is due to The oxidizing nature of our sodium chrome eight. So we're just gonna say it's due to the oxidizing nature of sodium chromite. And oxidizing simply means that we are increasing or adding the number of bonds two oxygen. And so what would that look like? Well, we would have our standard backbone structure of our cyclic structure, as we did before. But instead of that hydroxyl group, we would form a carb oxalic acid in its place. And so this would be our final answer of this reaction. I hope this helped. And until next time