Chemistry > Hydrocarbons > 10.0 Mechanism Of Some Important Reaction Of Alkenes

  Hydrocarbons
    1.0 Introduction
    2.0 Alkanes
    3.0 Methods of Preparation Alkanes
    4.0 Physical Proparties
    5.0 Chemical Properties
    6.0 Alkenes
    7.0 Methods of Preparation Alkenes
    8.0 Physical Proparties
    9.0 Chemical Properties
    10.0 Mechanism Of Some Important Reaction Of Alkenes
    11.0 Alkynes
    12.0 Methods of Preparation Alkynes
    13.0 Physical Properties
    14.0 Chemical Properteis
    15.0 Modern Concept
    16.0 Properteis
    17.0 Mechanism of Electrophilic Substitution Reactions
    18.0 Toluene
    19.0 Alkenyl Benzene

10.4 Oxidation reactions of alkenes

(i) With cold dilute $KMn{O_4}$ (Baeyer’s reagent) alkenes give 1, 2 – glycols.

\[C{H_3} - CH = C{H_2} + {H_2}O + O\xrightarrow{{}}C{H_3} - CHOH - C{H_2}OH\]

Propene From $KMn{O_4}$ Propylene glycol

(ii) With hot alkaline

Cleavage of C = C bond takes place leading to formation of carboxylic acids, ketones and $C{O_2} + {H_2}O$ depending upon structure of alkene.


Hence by identifying the products formed during alkaline $KMn{O_4}$ oxidation, it is possible to determine the position of the double bond in an alkene molecule.

(iii) With ozone alkenes first give ozonides which upon reductive cleavage with Zn dust and ${H_2}O\,\,or\,\,{H_2}/Pd$ gives aldehydes / ketones or a mixture of these depending upon the structure of alkene.

This two step – conversion of alkene into ozonide followed by decomposition with $Zn/\,{H_2}O$ to give aldehydes / ketones or a mixture of these is called reductive ozonolysis.

If however ozonide is decomposed with ${H_2}O,$ the initially formed aldehydes are further oxidized to the corresponding acids by ${H_2}{O_2}$ produced in the reaction. This is called oxidation ozonolysis.

The oxidation reactions of alkenes are summed up as follows:


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