What happens whe you react methanol with chromic acid? I know that when you reac

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What happens whe you react methanol with chromic acid? I know that when you react a secondary alcohol with chromicacid you get a ketone and when you react a primary alcohol withchromic acid you get a carboxylic acid, but I can not figure outwhat you get when you react methanol with chromic acid. What happens whe you react methanol with chromic acid? I know that when you react a secondary alcohol with chromicacid you get a ketone and when you react a primary alcohol withchromic acid you get a carboxylic acid, but I can not figure outwhat you get when you react methanol with chromic acid.

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Since methanol is a primary alcohol, you get a carboxylic acid,called formic acid or methanoic acid CH2O2.

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