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Q. Compound reacting with alkaline $ KMn{{O}_{4}} $ :

MGIMS WardhaMGIMS Wardha 2005

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Only $ 1{}^\circ $ alochol and $ 2{}^\circ $ alcohol react with alkaline $ KMn{{O}_{4}} $ . $ \underset{Alcohol}{\mathop{C{{H}_{3}}.\overset{\begin{smallmatrix} OH \\ | \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{CH}}\,.C{{H}_{3}}}}\,\xrightarrow[{}]{KMn{{O}_{4}}}\underset{Ketone}{\mathop{C{{H}_{3}}.\overset{\begin{smallmatrix} O \\ || \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{C}}\,.C{{H}_{3}}}}\, $ $ \xrightarrow[{}]{[O]}\underset{Ketone}{\mathop{C{{H}_{3}}COOH}}\, $