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what are the products of oxidation when an organic compound undergoes oxidation process?:eek:

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actualy i've been thinking about this...but hopefully i could find somebody to give me a solid explanation.. because I did know organic compund is composed of many such as phenol, alcohols, hydrocarbon(easy word,element that contain carbon ) and etc... but my Organic Chemistry practical questioning us like such..:confused: I've try to pull in all organic compound so that a derivation of a symbolized equation will be happen but it seems....huh!:-( please anyone....

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well i only know that oxidation of hydrocarbons yields carbon dioxide and water...:confused:

actualy i've been thinking about this...but hopefully i could find somebody to give me a solid explanation.. because I did know organic compund is composed of many such as phenol, alcohols, hydrocarbon(easy word,element that contain carbon ) and etc... but my Organic Chemistry practical questioning us like such..:confused: I've try to pull in all organic compound so that a derivation of a symbolized equation will be happen but it seems....huh!:-( please anyone....

 

Oxidation of an organic compound (like burning) tries to put every atom in its highest oxidational state. We can say when something like methane, (C -4, H+1) is burned, we get CO2 (C +4, O -2) and H2O (H +1, O -2).

 

When we burn chloroform, CHCl3 (which doesn't burn so good as the C is already +3), you could still say that the Cl can be oxidized up to +7. It yields ClO4-.

 

What i mean with the + and - a number, i give the oxidation state of that particular atom. I know this analogy is wrong when looking at covalent bonds, but it is a good way to explain these things.

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