Oxidation of food Primary alcohol molecules can be oxidised into aldehydes and carboxylic acids while secondary alcohols are oxidised to ketones. Antioxidants are added to food to prevent them ...

THE isolation and identification of the primary oxidation product of a hydrocarbon is so crucially important from the point of view of the theory of hydrocarbon combustion that no effort has been ...

The type of alcohol is determined by the position of the hydroxyl functional group. A primary alcohol is one in which the hydroxyl group (–OH) is attached to a carbon atom with at least two ...