The determination of some aliphatic alcohols and aldehydes by oxidation with acid potassium dichromate

✍ Scribed by J.A. Barnard; N. Karayannis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 562 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(00)88380-4

✦ Synopsis

1V.C.r (C;waf Ilritniu) (Iicccivcd Jum qth. 1961)

The osidation of primary aliphatic alcoliols is customarily rcprcscntcd by the ccluations ant1 tllesc form tllc basis of an analJ*tical method for the rlctcrminntiorl of mcthnnol and ethanol'. The mc4hocl is simple to perform and has the advantage of not requiring any of the specialiscd apparatus ncctlecl h>* more sophisticated tccliniqucs, e.g. gas cliromatography.

However, with higher alcohols the reactions no longer follow these equations precisely' and it was with tllc aim of clucidnting the nriturc of the processes then occurring that this investigation was concerned. Tlie mechanisms of osiclation by compounds of chromium have rccentl). been rcviewed by WATEHS3.