Ethanol is oxidised by alkaline KMnO $_{4}$ to oxalic acid.

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When a solution of ethanol is heated with potassium permanganate, the pink color of solution disappear because of strong oxidizing agent as $K M n O_{4}$ , which oxidizes ethanol to ethanoic acid.
$C H_{3} - C H_{2} O H$ $K M n O_{4} - ---- \to$ $C H_{3} C O O H$
$K_{2} C r_{2} O_{7}$ and $K M n O_{4}$ can convert ethanol to ethanoic acid, oxalic acid is $H_{2} C_{2} O_{4}$ which can not convert the same.

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Ethanol is oxidised by alkaline $K M n O_{4}$ to ethanoic acid.

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{CH}_{3} - {CH}_{2} - OH {Alkaline KMnO}_{4} + Heat - ------------- \to {CH}_{3} - COOH

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