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Oxidation of alkanes to the corresponding alcohols and ketones and epoxidation of alkenes can be performed efficiently at room temperature with molecular oxygen (1 atm) in the presence of an aldehyde and a copper salt catalyst such as Cu(OH)2.
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Murahashi et al. (1993) studied this question.
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