This is suitable for cleaving glycols and alpha-hydroxy ketones in ring opening and Mannich reaction.
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It is an ?-hydroxyketone, also called a ketol, and is the simplest hydroxy ketone structure.
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A few years later, the structure of this molecule, a hydroxy ketone named stigmolone, was determined by NMR and mass spectroscopy.
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In chemistry "'acyloins "'are a class of organic compounds which all possess the secondary alpha-hydroxy ketone functional group.
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"' Tollens'reagent "'is a chemical reagent used to determine the presence of an aldehyde, aromatic aldehyde and alpha-hydroxy ketone functional groups.
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"' Benzoin "'( or ) is an organic compound with the formula PhCH ( OH ) C ( O ) Ph . It is a hydroxy ketone attached to two phenyl groups.
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Along with chiral oxidants, researchers have also employed a variety of "'different oxidants "'other than mCPBA . This methodology gives acyclic and cyclic ?-hydroxy ketones in high yield with a cheap, commercially available oxidant.
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The main areas of use are the conversion of ketones to esters ( Baeyer-Villiger oxidation ), ?-hydroxy ketones ( Rubottom oxidation ), oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and sulfones, and oxidation of amines to produce amine oxides . mCPBA is a strong oxidizing agent that may cause fire upon contact with flammable material.