Chemistry Question - Please help!

[kinggori]

Hi guys,

Can someone please help me out here.
What is the balanced chemical equation for the oxidation of acetone (to produce CH3COOH + HCOOH) using potassium permanganate KMnO4(aq)?
The equation is probably ionic.

Thanks

[kinggori]

any chem whiz here?

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what about one question with A, B, c, d... etc. parts to it?

[kinggori]

what about one question with A, B, c, d... etc. parts to it?

[15-20_God]

did you try taking the square root of it yet and multiplying it by itself?

[kinggori]

did you try taking the square root of it yet and multiplying it by itself?

this is beautiful chemistry not ugly mathematics

[15-20_God]

this is beautiful chemistry not ugly mathematics

so what else have you been doing for the past 4 hours other than trying to figure out this problem?

[kinggori]

so what else have you been doing for the past 4 hours other than trying to figure out this problem?

What else have you been doing for the past couple of hours other than typing useless replies in RFD threads?

[15-20_God]

What else have you been doing for the past couple of hours other than typing useless replies in RFD threads?

nothing, but then again i don't have any homework to do.

[xIcewind]

Actually, I'm not really sure about the products of the reductant in a reaction of a ketone... ><. Damn.

Maybe Manganese Dioxide?

[kinggori]

Actually, I'm not really sure about the products of the reductant in a reaction of a ketone... ><. Damn.

Maybe Manganese Dioxide?

Thanks for the info...
ya manganese dioxide is formed (when the KMnO4 is reduced) but the acetone must be oxidized... supposedly forming acetic acid and formic acid

so there are 2 half ionic equations: one is reduction of KMnO4 to manganese dioxide. the other is oxidation of acetone, so its this second one which i cant do...

[xIcewind]

You mean

MnO4- + C3H6O -> C2H4O2 + CO2H2 doesn't balance?

It looks like it should, somehow...

What's your question anyways? If this is a lab assignment question asking for the equation for the reaction, it's might be looking for MnO4,H+ over the reaction arrow.