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Highly chemoselective Baeyer–Villiger oxidations can be performed in the presence of other reactive functionalities such as alcohols, olefins, and sulfides, which would undergo electrophilic oxidation under conventional conditions (see scheme). DMRFlEt+ClO4− (depicted blue) is a new class of flavin compound that catalyzes aerobic Baeyer–Villiger oxidations in the presence of Zn dust as the electron source.
Imada et al. (Thu,) studied this question.