Etymology

Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation

Today it means: The oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols by dimethyl sulfoxide activated with a carbodiimide such as dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. Full definition →

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First reported by J. Moffatt and his student K. Pfitzner in 1963.

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