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Line 21: The inorganic products are green, characteristic of [[metal aquo complex|chromium(III) aquo complexes]].<ref name=cyclooct/>
Like many other oxidations of alcohols by metal oxides, the reaction proceeds via the formation of a mixed [[chromate ester]]:<ref name=March>{{March6th}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Ley, S. V. |author2=Madin, A. |title = Comprehensive organic synthesis|year = 1991|volume=7|pages = 253–256 |editor1=B. M. Trost |editor2=I. Fleming |publisher=Pergamon Press|place=Oxford}}</ref> These [[ester]]s have the formula CrO<sub>3</sub>(OCH<sub>2</sub>R)<sup>−</sup> :CrO<sub>3</sub>(OH)<sup>−</sup> + RCH<sub>2</sub>OH → CrO<sub>3</sub>(OCH<sub>2</sub>R)<sup>−</sup> + H<sub>2</sub>O | |||