swoon4me answered your question: Salicylic acid has an -OH group. Does this mean you could oxidise it with acidified potassium dichromate and the colour would change from orange to green?
Nope. CrO3 doesn’t have protons to pull off and even at that the loss of aromaticity is disfavoured =) … I think
thank you! i spent so much time yesterday trying to figure out reactions of salicylic acid and in the end that wasn’t the point? sucks huh? i will now spend the whole of my career specialising in it i think. thanks again! :)
