Oxidation of nitrosoalkanes

Nitroso compounds are formed during the addition of nitrous oxide, dinitrogen trioxide, and nitrosyl halides to alkenes, and in some cases, from incomplete oxidation of amines with peroxyacids like peroxyacetic acid. Quenching of carbanions with nitrosyl halides is also a route to nitroso compounds. A full discussion on this subject is beyond the scope of this work and so the readers are directed to the work of Boyer.  

Oxidation of aliphatic nitroso functionality is usually facile but is not widely used in energetic materials synthesis. The following reagents have been used in these conversions oxygen,hydrogen peroxide, nitrous oxide, dinitrogen tetroxide,  

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