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draw the alcohol that is oxidized to give the product shown below. show all hydrogen atoms.

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The structure from which the product was obtained has been shown in the image attached to this answer.

What is the compound?

We need to refresh our mind about the oxidation of the alcohols. When we alcohol, the compound that we would obtain, we depend on the kind of alcohol that is oxidized as we can see. When we oxidize a primary alcohol, we would obtain a carboxylic acid which can be further oxidized to give an alkanone.

When we oxidize a secondary alcohol, we would now obtain a ketone. We have to look at the structure of the product that we have and this would then give us an idea of the kind of the compound that may have been oxidized so that we can be able to get the compound as it has been shown.

Since the product of the oxidation is an alkanoic acid, we can be able to see that the compound that it was obtained from is a primary alcohol

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