A variety of unsubstituted and mono- or di-substituted cycloalkanones can be oxidised with modest excess of magnesium monoperoxyphthalate hexahydrate in acetonitrile to produce the corresponding lactones in a facile, selective, and high yielding manner.
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Hirano et al. (1996) studied this question.
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