What happens when ethanol is treated with alkaline potassium permanganate ? Write the balanced chemical equation for the same.

Explanation

When ethanol is treated with alkaline potassium permanganate, ethanol gets oxidised by alkaline potassium permanganate to form ethanoic acid.
`underset("Ethanol")(CH_(3))-CH_(2)-OHunderset("Alkaline"KMnO_(4))overset((O))tounderset("Ethanoic acid")(CH_(3)-overset(O)overset("||")C-OH)`