Primary Alcohol or Aldehyde to Carboxylic Acid
Music and lyrics by Megan Arman

you wanna turn
a primary alcohol or aldehyde
into a carboxylic acid
you gotta use
permanganate oxidation, yea

KMnO4 and NaOH
then react with H3O+ and SO2
you will make
carboxylic acid, yea

you gotta gotta gotta
watch out for side reactions
of KMnO4 with alkenes and alkynes
so you'll make
carboxylic acid, yea