Dioxiranes special

The present volume comprises 17 chapters, written by 27 authors from 11 countries, and deals with theoretical aspects and structural chemistry of peroxy compounds, with their thermochemistry, O NMR spectra and analysis, extensively with synthesis of cyclic peroxides and with the uses of peroxides in synthesis, and with peroxides in biological systems. Heterocyclic peroxides, containing silicon, germanium, sulfur and phosphorus, as well as transition metal peroxides are treated in several chapters. Special chapters deal with allylic peroxides, advances in the chemistry of dioxiranes and dioxetanes, and chemiluminescence of peroxide and with polar effects of their decomposition. A chapter on anti-malarial and anti-tumor peroxides, a hot topic in recent research of peroxides, closes the book. 

It is important to underline in this introduction that the importance of oxaziridines as special oxidizing agents is expected to diminish in some fields due to the use of dioxiranes. Their importance, however, is indisputable since oxaziridines as chiral oxidizing agents201,202 offer greater possibilities than dioxiranes. 

In general, benzhydrylic C-H bonds (only slightly more reactive than tert-C-Hs) are distinctly more reactive than benzylic C-H bonds toward dioxirane O-insertion. - However, special situations arise in the selective hydroxylation of complex poly-... 

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