Foods which contain edible oils will spoil once exposed to oxygen from the air due to oxidation reactions. This chemical change results in a bad flavour and smell from the food. If left exposed to ...

The researchers focused on the oxidation of isobutane, a simple four-carbon alkane, into tert-butyl alcohol as a representative reaction with multiple applications. "In our preliminary ...

Optically pure alcohols are prevalent ... first reports of the Kharasch-Sosnovsky reaction in 1958, the copper-catalyzed radical-mediated sp 3 C-H oxidation has emerged as an important method ...