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Classified as: Baeyer-Villiger Reaction

The Baeyer-Villiger reactions involves the Nu attack of a protonated ketone by a per-acid: per acetic acid, CH3COOOH, or meta chloro perbenzoic acid.

The tetrahedral intermediate undergoes a 1,2-alkyl shift (rearrangement) to give the ester. The reaction can be considered as an oxygen insertion, OR an oxidation or a rearrangement.

For more information look in the Chemogenesis webbook sections on insertion reactions, redox chemistry and rearrangement reactions.
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RCOOH

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CH3COOOH
         
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CH3COOH

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CH3COOOH
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CH3CH2OH
         
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CH3COOH

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