Peracetic Acid and Trifluoroacetic peracid

Name Reactions

Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation

Prilezhaev Reaction

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Recent Literature

Sodium percarbonate in trifluoroacetic acid is an effective reagent for the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of ketones to esters. The scope and limitations of the reaction were explored.
G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, N. J. Trivedi, G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 1991, 739-740.

The complex [MnII(R,R-mcp)(CF₃SO₃)₂] is a very efficient and practical catalyst for the epoxidation of a wide scope of olefins including terminal, tertiary, cis and trans internal, enones, and methacrylates using peracetic acid as the terminal oxidant.
A. Murphy, G. Dubois, T. D. P. Stack, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 5250-5251.

A facile ruthenium-catalyzed methodology for the preparation of pentavalent iodine compounds uses peracetic acid as an oxidant. The new procedure allows the preparation of iodylarenes bearing strongly electron-withdrawing groups.
A. Y. Koposov, R. R. Karimov, A. A. Pronin, T. Skrupskaya, M. S. Yusubov, V. V. Zhdankin, J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 9912-9914.