Mechanism of cyclohexanol oxidation

The mechanism of cyclohexanol oxidation has been studied in detail and is rather complex [23,26,32,48—50,57,58]. Various reactions involving H202 decomposition and cyclohexanone oxidation play the main part in the later stages of the process. 

Hydrogen peroxide decay in cyclohexanol oxidation occurs by several routes, (a) By reaction with hydroxycyclohexyl radicals [57] 

Quantitative calculation of the rates of product formation during cyclo- 

The results of the calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data. 

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