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In the oxidation of the side chain in toluene with potassium permanganate and water as the reagents, does the acidity increase as the redox reaction is carried out?
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Soaring Crane said:Do you know what kind of undesired product might form in this reaction? Would it be distinguishable from the crystallized benzoic acid?
I was trying to work out the reaction mechanism for the oxidation of toluene just to understand the reaction more, but I am unsure of the steps since I was following an example, the oxidation of benzaldehyde. Instead of arriving at PhCOOH from PhCH3, I got PhCHO. How do 2 oxygen atoms replace the side chain from PhCH3? (Does the mechanism show PhCH3 oxidized to PhCHO, which is then oxidized again by MnO4- to finally get PhCOOH? I’m sorry if this is a foolish question. ) How exactly does this mechanism look?
Thanks.
Soaring Crane said:I tried using a search engine, but I mostly get reaction equations and not a mechanism or published papers that you must have an account for.
I also have another question pertaining to this redox reaction.
After KMnO4 is added to toluene and is refluxed, benzoic acid forms. However, after MnO2 is removed but before acidification occurs (before HCl is added to filtrate), is the benzoic acid, the product in the clear filtrate, in an aqueous form? (Did I use "aqueous" correctly? I know the product does not exist in a solid form as yet.)
This the the equation before acidification:
PhCH3 + 2MnO4- --> PhCOO- + 2MnO2 (precip.) + H2O + OH-
Did I mix up the aqueous state with the liquid state? I thought that if ions exist in water it would be labeled “aqueous.”
Thanks again.
Soaring Crane said:Even though the reaction mixture occurs under basic conditions, the reaction mixture's pH still decreases as the redox reaction transpires, right?
Soaring Crane said:So the pH actually does increase? (It's only after acidification, not oxidation, that the pH decreases?)
Soaring Crane said:In the theoretical equation, doesn't the MnO4 get reduced to MnO2?
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