Permanganate alkaline solutions

Colourless prisms m.p. 130 C. Manufactured by treating maleic anhydride with water. It is converted to the anhydride by heating at By prolonged heating at 150 "C or by heating with water under pressure at 200 C, it is converted to the isomeric (trans) fumaric acid. Reduced by hydrogen to succinic acid. Oxidized by alkaline solutions of potassium permanganate to mesotartaric acid. When heated with solutions of sodium hydroxide at 100 C, sodium( )-malate is formed. Used in the preparation of ( )-malic acid and in some polymer formulations. 

Saccharin (imide of o-sulphobenzoic acid). Upon oxidising o toluene-sulphonamide with potassium permanganate in alkaline solution, the sodium salt of o-sulphonamidobenzoic acid is formed, which upon acidifying with concentrated hydrochloric acid or warming passes spontaneously into the cyclic imide of o-sulphobenzoic acid or saccharin ... 

The methyl group of -nitrotoluene is activated by the para nitro group. -Nitrotoluene is oxidized to -nitrobenzoic acid [62-23-7] by potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) in alkaline solution, potassium permanganate, or potassium dichromate. -Nitrotoluene is converted to -nitrobenzaldehyde... 

Molten sodium cyanide reacts with strong oxidizing agents such as nitrates and chlorates with explosive violence. In aqueous solution, sodium cyanide is oxidized to sodium cyanate [917-61 -3] by oxidizing agents such as potassium permanganate or hypochlorous acid. The reaction with chlorine in alkaline solution is the basis for the treatment of industrial cyanide waste Hquors (45) ... 

The alkaloid contains two methoxyl groups, and is demethylated by hydriodic acid to berberoline, CigHj304N (amorphous). When berberine is oxidised in warm alkaline solution with potassium permanganate a series of degradation products is obtained, of which the following are the more important. 

While this work was in progress Spath and Bretschneider showed that strychnine, on oxidation with permanganate in alkaline solution, furnished W-oxalylanthranilic acid (VII), brucine yielding oxalyl-4 5-dimethoxy-anthranilic acid, the latter observation providing confirmation of the evidence previously adduced that the two methoxy-groups in brucine are in the oj Ao-position relative to each other as indicated by Lions, Perkin and Robinson. The results so far considered indicate the presence in brucine and strychnine of the complex (VIII), which can be extended to (IX) if account is taken of the readiness with which carbazole can be obtained from strychnine and brucine and certain of their derivatives by decomposition with alkali at temperatures ranging from 200° to 400°, Knowledge of the structure of the rest of the molecule is mainly due to the results of the exhaustive study by Leuchs and his pupils of the oxidation... 

C,4H2204, melting at 182 5. The formation of this cedrene-dicarboxylic acid serves for the detection of cedrene in essential oils. It is sufficient if the fraction to be examined be oxidised by permanganate or ozone, and the acid obtained (boiling-point at 10 mm. = 200° to 220° C.) be then oxidised further, either by an alkaline solution of bromine or by nitric acid. Even very small proportions of cedrene have definitely led to the obtaining of this acid melting at 182 5° C. 

Potassium permanganate may also be used in strongly alkaline solutions. Here two consecutive partial reactions take place ... 

The standard potential e of reaction (1) is 0.56 volt and of reaction (2) 0.60 volt. By suitably controlling the experimental conditions (e.g. by the addition of barium ions, which form the sparingly soluble barium manganate as a fine, granular precipitate), reaction (1) occurs almost exclusively. In moderately alkaline solutions permanganate is reduced quantitatively to manganese dioxide. The half-cell reaction is ... 

Cyanide and thiocyanate anions in aqueous solution can be determined as cyanogen bromide after reaction with bromine [686]. The thiocyanate anion can be quantitatively determined in the presence of cyanide by adding an excess of formaldehyde solution to the sample, which converts the cyanide ion to the unreactive cyanohydrin. The detection limits for the cyanide and thiocyanate anions were less than 0.01 ppm with an electron-capture detector. Iodine in acid solution reacts with acetone to form monoiodoacetone, which can be detected at high sensitivity with an electron-capture detector [687]. The reaction is specific for iodine, iodide being determined after oxidation with iodate. The nitrate anion can be determined in aqueous solution after conversion to nitrobenzene by reaction with benzene in the presence of sulfuric acid [688,689]. The detection limit for the nitrate anion was less than 0.1 ppm. The nitrite anion can be determined after oxidation to nitrate with potassium permanganate. Nitrite can be determined directly by alkylation with an alkaline solution of pentafluorobenzyl bromide [690]. The yield of derivative was about 80t.with a detection limit of 0.46 ng in 0.1 ml of aqueous sample. Pentafluorobenzyl p-toluenesulfonate has been used to derivatize carboxylate and phenolate anions and to simultaneously derivatize bromide, iodide, cyanide, thiocyanate, nitrite, nitrate and sulfide in a two-phase system using tetrapentylammonium cWoride as a phase transfer catalyst [691]. Detection limits wer Hi the ppm range. 

The double bond in the unhalogenated ring is readily attacked by oxidizing agents. Chromic acid in acetic acid, and potassium permanganate in alkaline solution, oxidize the compound to the expected dicarboxylic acid, 4,5,6,7,8,8-hexachloro-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-1,3-dicarboxy-4,7 -methanoindane. 

Benzoylformic acid can be prepared by the oxidation of acetophenone with potassium permanganate in alkaline solution,1 by the oxidation of mandelic acid with potassium perman-... 

The intensity of absorption gives the product G , where G is the observed yield and is the molar extinction coefficient. The absolute value of was determined by Fielden and Hart (1967) using an H2-saturated alkaline solution and an alkaline permanganate-formate solution, where all radicals are converted into Mn042. They thus obtained = 1.09 x 104 M- cm1 at 578 nm, which is almost identical with that obtained by Rabani et al. (1965), who converted the hydrated electron into the nitroform anion in a neutral solution of tetrani-tromethane. From the shape of the absorption spectrum and the absolute value of at 578 nm, one can then find the absolute extinction coefficient at all wavelengths. In particular, at the peak of absorption, (720)/ (578) = 1.7 gives at 720 nm as 1.85 X 104 M 1cm 1. 

Oxidation6 of II with potassium permanganate or hydrogen peroxide in alkaline solution affords 2-methyl-3,5-furandicarboxylic acid (III). This,... 

The constitution of the new compound was proved22 by the isolation of an acid XX after oxidation at low temperature with potassium permanganate in alkaline solution. This acid was converted to its diethyl ester (XXI), the melting point and other properties of which coincide with those of a compound synthesized by Fischer and Hussong.23... 

These catalytic effects are usually signaled by irreproducible behavior. If it is suspected that traces of metal ions may be causing peculiar rate effects, a strong ligand may be added to sequester the metal ion. The spontaneous decomposition of H2O2 has been reported as 4.7 X 10 M s at pH 11.6 and 35°C. This is the lowest recorded value and is obtained in the presence of strong chelators. In a similar way the decomposition of permanganate in alkaline solution (3.6) is markedly slowed when the reactants are extensively purified... 

The oxidation of N-alkylated pyridinium salts (1) with alkaline ferricyanide was first reported by Decker (1892CB443) and provides a standard method for the synthesis of 2-pyridones (2) (430SC(2)419). Potassium permanganate or hydrogen peroxide in alkaline solution (70T2953) as well as p-benzoquinones (63ACS2250) also perform this oxidation. However, these reagents are much less specific than ferricyanide. 

The treatment of polonium(lV) with nitric acid/potassium permanganate under reflux yields a sludge of manganese dioxide which contains all the polonium originally present the valency state is uncertain. Polonium (IV) in weighable amounts is not oxidized by persulfate, ceric salts or chlorine in alkaline solution (12), although trace scale work indicates that both ceric salts and dichromate do oxidize polonium to polonium(VI) (94). 

Compound 193 is not stable in alkaline solution, but is cleaved to give o-benzoylbenzoic acid and benzoic acid cautious permanganate oxidation of 193 gives o-benzoylbenzil (187). It was not cleaved by hydrogen peroxide. 

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