Lab notes - Making Potassium Permanganate

My lab notes of making potassium permanganate. First i tried reacting manganese hydroxide, potassium chlorate and potassium hydroxide by mixing them together and heating to 300 celsius. I got green stuff that i think was potassium manganate so i oxidized it further to permanganate using chlorine gas. It turned the proper purple color but when i crystallized it the result was crystals of potassium chlorate with a little permanganate mixed in. So that was failure and i repeated the experiment again at 400 celsius thinking i just needed more heat. But it still failed and produced only small quantites of permanganate. So i thought maybe using manganese hydroxide was wrong. I repeated the experiment but using manganese dioxide this time. I produced a much more intense color of green manganate and purple permanganate and when i crystalized it i produced the proper black crystals of potassium permanganate. To make certain it was correct, i titrated using sodium oxalate and confirmed that i had a redox active substance that assayed to 99% purity. The yield was 15.4g or about 19%. Donate to NurdRage! Through Patreon (preferred):   / nurdrage   Through Youtube Memberships:    / @nurdrage   Twitter:   / nurdrage   Reddit:   / nurdrage   Instagram:   / nurdrageyoutube