Question

Selective oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones

Answer 1

The oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones is an important oxidation reaction in organic chemistry.



Where a secondary alcohol is oxidised, it is converted to a ketone. The hydrogen from the hydroxyl group is lost along with the hydrogen bonded to the second carbon. The remaining oxygen then forms double bonds with the carbon. This leaves a ketone, as R1–COR2. Ketones cannot normally be oxidised any further because this would involve breaking a C–C bond, which requires too much energy.[1]

The reaction can occur using a variety of oxidants.

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Answer 2

the bayer villiger oxidation is the oxidative cleavage of a carbon carbon bond adjacent to a carbonyl which converts ketones to esters and cyclic ketones to lectons.