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(ii) Using appropriate catalysts, ethane can be oxidized to an alcohol, an aldehyde and an acid. Name the alcohol, aldehyde and acid formed when ethane is oxidized.
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Ethane can be oxidized as follows:
1. A mixture of ethane and oxygen in the ratio 9:1 by volume is compressed to about 120 atm pressure and passed over copper tubes at 475 K, to form ethanol.
2C2H6+O2→2CH3CH2OH
2. When a mixture of ethane and oxygen is passed through heated MoO, the mixture is oxidized to ethanal.
C2H6+O2→CH3CHO+H2O
3. Ethane reacts with oxygen at 120 atm pressure and 475 K temperature to form ethanol which is then oxidized to ethanoic acid in the presence of platinum catalyst at 300o C.
2C2H6+O2→2CH3CH2OH
CH3CH2OH+O2→CH3COOH+H2O
1. A mixture of ethane and oxygen in the ratio 9:1 by volume is compressed to about 120 atm pressure and passed over copper tubes at 475 K, to form ethanol.
2C2H6+O2→2CH3CH2OH
2. When a mixture of ethane and oxygen is passed through heated MoO, the mixture is oxidized to ethanal.
C2H6+O2→CH3CHO+H2O
3. Ethane reacts with oxygen at 120 atm pressure and 475 K temperature to form ethanol which is then oxidized to ethanoic acid in the presence of platinum catalyst at 300o C.
2C2H6+O2→2CH3CH2OH
CH3CH2OH+O2→CH3COOH+H2O
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