How do you convert primary alcohol to aldehyde?
1 Answer
Jun 19, 2016
By careful and controlled oxidation.
Explanation:
I had a colleague, a very accomplished synthetic organic chemist, who routinely used to use potassium dichromate or permanganate for these sorts of oxidations (he didn't care which one he used, of course, they are very indiscriminate reagents). It wasn't something that I (a duffer) could do, but he used to monitor the reaction in real time by TLC, and quench the reaction at the appropriate time.