general Organic chemistry

[al-Chemist]

what are the products of oxidation when an organic compound undergoes oxidation process?

[314159]

Depends on the reactants, I would suspect. There's a handy wikipedia page on the topic.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_oxidation

[al-Chemist]

actualy i've been thinking about this...but hopefully i could find somebody to give me a solid explanation.. because I did know organic compund is composed of many such as phenol, alcohols, hydrocarbon(easy word,element that contain carbon ) and etc... but my Organic Chemistry practical questioning us like such.. I've try to pull in all organic compound so that a derivation of a symbolized equation will be happen but it seems....huh! please anyone....

[Karnage]

well i only know that oxidation of hydrocarbons yields carbon dioxide and water...

[Fuzzwood]

actualy i've been thinking about this...but hopefully i could find somebody to give me a solid explanation.. because I did know organic compund is composed of many such as phenol, alcohols, hydrocarbon(easy word,element that contain carbon ) and etc... but my Organic Chemistry practical questioning us like such.. I've try to pull in all organic compound so that a derivation of a symbolized equation will be happen but it seems....huh! please anyone....

 

Oxidation of an organic compound (like burning) tries to put every atom in its highest oxidational state. We can say when something like methane, (C -4, H+1) is burned, we get CO₂ (C +4, O -2) and H₂O (H +1, O -2).

 

When we burn chloroform, CHCl₃ (which doesn't burn so good as the C is already +3), you could still say that the Cl can be oxidized up to +7. It yields ClO₄^-.

 

What i mean with the + and - a number, i give the oxidation state of that particular atom. I know this analogy is wrong when looking at covalent bonds, but it is a good way to explain these things.