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Addition of concentrated sulfuric acid to potassium permanganate gives Mn 2 O 7. [76] Although no reaction may be apparent, the vapor over the mixture will ignite paper impregnated with alcohol. Potassium permanganate and sulfuric acid react to produce some ozone, which has a high oxidizing power and rapidly oxidizes the alcohol, causing it to ...
A permanganate can oxidize an amine to a nitro compound, [7] [8] an alcohol to a ketone, [9] an aldehyde to a carboxylic acid, [10] [11] a terminal alkene to a carboxylic acid, [12] oxalic acid to carbon dioxide, [13] and an alkene to a diol. [14] This list is not exhaustive. In alkene oxidations one intermediate is a cyclic Mn(V) species: [15]
Potassium permanganate will decompose into potassium manganate, manganese dioxide and oxygen gas: 2 KMnO 4 → K 2 MnO 4 + MnO 2 + O 2 This reaction is a laboratory method to prepare oxygen, but produces samples of potassium manganate contaminated with MnO 2 .
Potassium permanganate, KMnO 4, is a widely used, versatile and powerful oxidising agent. Permanganic acid solutions are unstable, and gradually decompose into manganese dioxide, oxygen, and water, with initially formed manganese dioxide catalyzing further decomposition. [6] Decomposition is accelerated by heat, light, and acids.
Manganate is formally the conjugate base of hypothetical manganic acid H 2 MnO 4, which cannot be formed because of its rapid disproportionation. However, its second acid dissociation constant has been estimated by pulse radiolysis techniques: [3] HMnO − 4 ⇌ MnO 2− 4 + H + pK a = 7.4 ± 0.1
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In weak acidic medium MnO − 4 can not accept 5 electrons to form Mn 2+. Instead, it accepts only 3 electrons and forms solid MnO 2 by the following reaction: MnO − 4 + 4 H + + 3 e − → MnO 2 + 2 H 2 O; E° = +1.69 V. In a strongly basic solution, with the concentration c (NaOH) >1 mol dm −3, only one electron is accepted to produce ...
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