Oxidation hydroaromatic compound

The reactivity pattern for the reduction of fluorenone—sporinite > vitrinite > alginite > semifusinite > fusinite > resinite—defines a bell shaped dependence on the H/C ratio of the maceral and presumably reflects the quantity of readily oxidized hydroaromatic compounds in the maceral. The differences in the effectiveness of the macerals depends in part upon their ability to initiate the reduction of the ketone and in part upon the facility with which they undergo oxidation. 

O Fukuda, S Sakaguchi, Y Ishii. Preparation of hydroperoxides by N-hydroxyphthalimide-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of alkylbenzenes and hydroaromatic compounds and its application. Adv. Synth. Catal. 343 809-813,2001. 

Examples have been given for the formation of ketones, acids, and other oxygen containing compounds by the treatment of aliphatic or hydroaromatic hydrocarbons such as are present in pressure distillate with carbon monoxide under pressure and in the presence of the anhydrous halides of aluminum or boron or both.86 Such a process, advocated also for the oxidation of chlorinated or alkylated aromatics,40 is of doubtful utility. 

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