Organic Chemistry
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Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
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Chapter 16, Problem 21PP
PRACTICE PROBLEM 16.21
What would be the major product formed in the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of 3-methyl-2-butanone?
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