Oxidation and Combustion

What are Oxidation and Combustion Reactions?

This post will go through oxidation and combustion for QCE Chemistry.

4.1.3 – Organic Reactions and Reaction Pathways

• Describe, using equations:
  • Oxidation reactions of alcohols and the complete combustion of alkanes and alcohols
• Understand that organic reactions can be identified using characteristic observations and recall tests to distinguish between:
  • Primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols using acidified potassium
    dichromate (VI) and potassium manganate (VII)

The Oxidation of Alcohols

This video will go through the oxidation of alcohols.

Observations of the Oxidation of Alcohols

This video goes through a practical which shows some observations when oxidising alcohols.

Combustion

This video will go through complete and incomplete combustion.