Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
The Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of a ketone using triflouro-1,1,1-ethaneperoxoic acid, passing through intermediate phases to produce an ester
CF3A triflouromethane group
CF3
Hydrogen atom
H
Oxygen atom
O
Terminal group 1
R1
Terminal group 2
R2
The initial ketone
A ketone, consisting of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom and singly bonded to two "terminal groups"
Oxygen atom double-bonded to the group
Double bond
The carbon atom
bonded to the oxygen in the ketone
terminal group 1
Single bond to terminal group 1
Single bond to terminal group 2
plus
+
Reagent, triflouro-1,1,1-ethaneperoxoic acid
-anol group
Initial reaction steps
The acid's hydrogen breaks the double bond of the ketone's oxygen atom and forms an OH group
The oxygen atom that held the hydrogen on the reagent acid takes up the free bond to the central carbon atom.
Intermediate state 1
-anol group
Things moving in intermediate state 1
second things moving
Stuff thrown out in second phase transform?
negative charge
positive charge
Byproduct: positively charged hydrogen ions
positive charge