Biochemical oxidations scope

The scope of oxidation chemistry is enormous and embraces a wide range of reactions and processes. This article provides a brief introduction to the homogeneous free-radical oxidations of paraffinic and alkylaromatic hydrocarbons. Heterogeneous catalysis, biochemical and hiomimetic oxidations, oxidations of unsaturates, anodic oxidations, etc, even if used to illustrate specific points, are arbitrarily outside the purview of this article. There are, even so, many unifying features among these areas. 

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