Oxidative Cleavage of Alkynes with KMnO4
Description: Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) will cleave alkynes to give carboxylic acids.
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Description: Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) will cleave alkynes to give carboxylic acids.
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“Notes: Note where a terminal alkyne is being cleaved (examples 1 and 3) one of the products is carbon dioxide.”
You mean examples 2 and 4?
Yes. thanks, I’ll fix that!
i request for a mechanism for the cleavage of the tripple bonds by the pottasium permanganate