ALLIED Health Identify the main organic reaction shown as condensation, hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction:

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Welcome back everyone. What type of organic reaction is depicted below condensation, hydrolysis, oxidation or reduction in the given reaction. We see that there is a secondary alcohol which reacts with potassium permanganate to produce a ketone. And for the purposes of this problem, we want to recall what a redox reaction is. First of all, what we notice is that a secondary alcohol forms an additional carbon oxygen bond, which is that double bond, right? We have introduced a pi bond to our structure and we have removed the hydrogen atom from oxygen. Now, in organic chemistry, we can define oxidation as an increase in carbon hetero atom bonds where a hetero atom is simply any atom except from hydrogen, right, or a decrease in carbon hydrogen bonds while reduction, it is basically the opposite. In this case, we can clearly see that there is an increase in carbon oxygen bonds. So we have increased the number of carbon oxygen bonds from one, 22. And of course, we have lost a bond between oxygen and hydrogen. However, this is not relevant because oxygen is a hetero atom and we must have carbon hygen bonds, right? But we can also observe that because the carbon atom at the secondary position has lost its hygiene. Since now, we're forming a double bond. So simultaneously, we have two concepts applicable in this problem and we can use any of them, right, if we have identified an increase in carbon oxygen bonds that's already sufficient, but we can also identify the loss of carbon hydrogen bonds. We had one and in the product, we have zero since our carbon already has four bonds. And therefore, this process is defined as oxidation. Let's label it as our final answer. And thank you for watching.