You have a bottle of salicylaldehyde. And you want to make salicylic acid from salicylaldehyde. You can use all reagents and catalyst to make salicylic acid.
I think salicylic acid can be synthesized from salicylaldehyde since salicylaldehyde has a structure similar to salicylic acid. I'm thinking that it might be possible to use $\ce{KMnO4}$, but I'm afraid the hydroxyl group attached to the benzene would be oxidized too.
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