Oxidation of ethanol produces _____ and _______.

When ethanol is heated with an alkaline potassium permanganate solution or acidified potassium dichromate solution it gets oxidized to ethanoic acid:

${\mathrm{CH}}_3{\mathrm{CH}}_2\mathrm{OH} +2\left[\mathrm{O}\right] \stackrel{\mathrm{Alkaline} {\mathrm{KMnO}}_4}{\to } {\mathrm{CH}}_3\mathrm{COOH} +{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}$

Therefore, the oxidation of alcohol produces carboxylic acids and water.