Organic Chemistry · Chapter 5: Alcohols

Question

When ____, this is called the Jones oxidation.

Answer

When chromium trioxide dissolved with dilute sulfuric acid in acetone, this is called the Jones oxidation.
When chromium trioxide dissolved with dilute sulfuric acid in acetone, this is called the Jones oxidation .
Note: As expected, this reaction oxidizes primary alcohols to carboxylic acids and secondary alcohols to ketones.

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