Ning Jiao is Full Professor at State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, China. His current research efforts are focused on developing synthetic methodologies and the application in drug discovery, aerobic oxidation, oxygenation, nitrogenation, and halogenation reactions.

Shannon S. Stahl is Steenbock Professor of Chemical Sciences in the Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His research group specializes in catalysis, with an emphasis on the catalytic chemistry of molecular oxygen and aerobic oxidation reactions, and electrocatalytic reactions related to chemical synthesis and energy conversion.

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. (The green oxidative synthesis of) alcohols and phenols

2. (The green oxidative synthesis of) carbonyl compounds

3. (The green oxidative synthesis of) ethers, esters and organic halides

4. (The green oxidative synthesis of) epoxides

5. (The green oxidative synthesis of) carboxylic acids

6. (The green oxidative synthesis of) amines, amides and imines

7. (The green oxidative synthesis of) nitriles

8. (The green oxidative synthesis of) diazo, azido, and aromatic azocompounds

9. (The green oxidative synthesis of) substituted olefins and alkynes

10. (The green oxidative synthesis of) substituted arenes

11. (The green oxidative synthesis of) Heterocyclic compounds

12. (The green oxidative synthesis of) sulfoxides and sulfones

13. The green oxidative C-P, and C-S bond formation

14. The recent development of photocatalytic oxidations

15. The recent development of electrochemical oxidations

16. The recent development of enzymatic oxidation