Oxidations of Amines, Amides, Ethers, Sulfides, Phosphines, Arsines, Stibines and Miscellaneous Substrates

This chapter principally concerns oxidations of organic substrates ­containing N, O, S, P, As and Sb. Oxidations of amines are covered first, including primary amines to nitriles or amides; secondary amines to imines or other products; tertiary amines to N-oxides or other products (Section 5.1) and the oxidation of amides (5.2). Oxidation of ethers to esters or lactones follows (5.3), then of sulfides to sulfoxides or sulfones (5.4) and of phosphines, arsine and stibines to their oxides (5.5). A final section (5.6) concerns such miscellaneous oxidations not covered by other sections in the book.