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Industrial Preparation of Ethanoic Acid

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How can ethanol be converted to propanone?

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Ethanol on oxidation with $K M n O_{4}$ gives carboxylic acid.
Carboxylic acid reaction with $C a (O H)_{2}$ gives $C a^{+ 2}$ salts of carboxylic acid which on decarboxylation gives propane/ Acetone.

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