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Where to look up chemical reactions?

Where to look up chemical reactions?

Where to look up chemical reactions?

(OP)
I haven't been in a college classroom in 10 years. Every now and then I find myself having to look up the product of an organic chemical reaction. (Usually involving permanganate and another organic)

Chemists, help me out....what is the best reference for finding such information (short of going to the library)?

RE: Where to look up chemical reactions?

If it's a popular product (large volume) I try Wikipedia.  If not, I use Google.

Good luck,
Latexman

RE: Where to look up chemical reactions?

(OP)
Unfortunately, that doesn't always work which is why I was hoping to get some direction on a more traditional reference.

RE: Where to look up chemical reactions?

The place to start is your college organic chemistry text. Permanganate would probably result in an oxidation reaction. Look for the chapter titled "Oxidation".

RE: Where to look up chemical reactions?

I used to be chemistry teacher in high school. The product can not be easily found in chemistry books. The type of products depends on the concentration of permangenate. As compositopro said, permangenate is an oxidizer. Carbon oxidation number could be a number from -4 to +4.Permangenate can, depends on its concentration, change the carbon oxidation number from -4 to +4 or any thing between them. The product would be different based the final carbon oxidation number.
 

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