Abstract
The oxidation of organic compounds is not only a main source of available energy, but includes very important reactions for us concerning industrial chemistry, biology, medical science, and also environmental conservation, so that the studies on the oxidation reactions have been widely carried out from the early date of chemistry and still many active chemists are centering their interest on this reaction.
The present article reviews valuable and interesting studies reported in recent years on the organic oxidation with chemical oxidants beside molecular oxygen including studies carried out in our laboratory. The oxidation with molecular oxygen would be described by other authors in this symposium. Because of the limited pages we excluded electrolytic and biological oxidations and oxidations by organic compounds.
The present review is classified according to the oxidants as follows : heavy metal salts (Cr, Mn, Os, Xe, Co, Pd, Tl, Ru, and U salts), halogens and hypohalites (dark and photochemical reactions), hydrogen peroxide (under irradiation, base-catalyzed and heavy metal-catalyzed reactions), and miscellaneous peroxides (perphosphoric acid, peroxidiphosphate, alkyl hydroperoxides, and oxaziridines).
