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THE reactions of hydrogen peroxide, and alkyl hydrogen peroxides, with organic compounds are usually regarded as homolytic processes. This note outlines evidence which suggests that the peroxidations of aldehydes are almost certainly of a heterolytic character. In such reactions, hydrogen peroxide behaves as a nucleophilic reagent, attacking through its anion HO2—, just as hydrogen cyanide attacks1through its anion CN—.
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BUNTON, C., HALBERSTADT, E., EVERETT, A. et al. Formation of Hydroxy Peroxides. Nature 161, 172–173 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161172a0
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