Hudlický M. Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

ACS, 1994. - 433 p. (ACS MONOGRAPH SERIES)FOUR YEARS after my book Reductions in Organic Chemistry was published by Ellis Horwood in Chichester, England, I submitted its pendant, Oxidations in Organic Chemistry. The present monograph is intended to become an aid to a bench chemist. That means that its scope is experimental rather than theoretical, and emphasis is laid on the preparative aspects and synthetic usefulness of individual reactions rather than on the historical developments and mechanisms. This is the only way to compress a critical survey of countless oxidations into a book of reasonable size. The criteria for inclusion of oxidation reactions were simplicity of the reactions, clarity of their descriptions, availability of the oxidants, and yields of the products. The last aspect is somewhat problematic, because analogous compounds may give widely varied results.
To compare the results of oxidations by various oxidants, fairly simple types of compounds are shown to illustrate reaction conditions. After all, these compounds were selected by the researchers who tried to advertise their new methods. More sophisticated examples were avoided, especially because of lack of space.Oxidation Agents
Dehydrogenations
Oxidations
Preparative Procedures
(qorrelation Tables