whats the colour change when you add cold potassium permanganate in an alkaline solutionn\ to alkene ?
Is it Purple -----> colourless
OR
purple solution first becomes dark green and then produces a dark brown precipitate.
in my boook its de first one
It's the first one itself
When alkaline KMnO4 is added to an alkene, it causes oxidation of the alkene while itslef gets reduced.
This is why the colour change from purple to colourless represnts reduction of KMnO4.
i wonder where did you get dark green and dark brown ppt