Oxygen → 2-Cyclohexen-1-one

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Reaction Steps

To 25 milliliters of acetonitrile, were added 1.64 grams (20 millimoles) of cyclohexene, and azobisisobutyronitrile (5 mole percent). The resultant mixture was stirred in an oxygen atmosphere at a temperature of 90° C. for 4 hours. In analysis of the product in the reaction mixture with gas chromatography, cyclohexene was transformed into 2-cyclohexen-1-one (cyclohexene-based selectivity 12%, yield 4%) and 2-cyclohexen-1-ol (cyclohexene-based selectivity 3%, yield 1%) with a transformation rate of 34 percent.

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