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Acidity of Carboxylic Acids

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Experts both alkaline and acidic KMnO4 oxidise alcohols to carboxylic acid do they show same reactions so then in general i can write KMnO4 for oxidising anything instead of acidic and alkaline

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Its enough if you write with general, KMnO₄ and (O) during the oxidation of alcohol to acid.
$R C H_{2} O H \overset{(O) / K M n O_{4}}{\to} R C O O H$

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