How would we represent the oxidation of sucrose to give oxalic acid with nitric acid oxidant?
1 Answer
Mar 8, 2017
Sucrose (probably) is oxidized up to oxalic acid
Explanation:
Carbon is formally zerovalent, i.e. a
And nitrate is reduced to
So we add 36 reductions reactions to one of the oxidations:
As far as I can tell, this reaction is balanced. The reaction represents the oxidation of