Assignment:
Given the following:
methanoic acid (CH2O2) + heat + reduction = CH2O (formaldeyhde vapor)
ethanoic acid (C2H4O2) + heat + reduction = CH3O2 (acetaldehyde vapor)
1) Is it reasonable to assume that these aqueous organic acids when heated to vapor will in fact lose an oxygen and convert to formaldehyde and acetaldehyde vapor?
2) Under these similar circumstances, how is methanol created.
formaldehyde + water = methylene glcol which in turn can be reduced to methanol?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.