General Characteristics The oxidation of olefins to epoxides using peracids is known as the Prilezhaev epoxidation. m-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA) in particular is used often in laboratories ...
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Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
General Characteristics -The conversion of ketones into esters by oxidation using peracids is called the Baeyer-Villiger reaction. In unsymmetrical ketones, the more substituted (the more ...