Adkins–Peterson reaction
The Adkins–Peterson reaction is the air oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde with metal oxide catalysts such as iron oxide, molybdenum trioxide or combinations thereof.
It was developed by Homer Burton Adkins and Wesley R. Peterson.[1]
References
- ^ Adkins, Homer; Peterson, Wesley R. (1931). "The Oxidation of Methanol with Air over Iron Molybdenum and Iron-Molybdenum Oxides". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 53 (4): 1512–1520. doi:10.1021/ja01355a050.
- v
- t
- e
Topics in organic reactions
- Addition reaction
- Elimination reaction
- Polymerization
- Reagents
- Rearrangement reaction
- Redox reaction
- Regioselectivity
- Stereoselectivity
- Stereospecificity
- Substitution reaction
- A value
- Alpha effect
- Annulene
- Anomeric effect
- Antiaromaticity
- Aromatic ring current
- Aromaticity
- Baird's rule
- Baker–Nathan effect
- Baldwin's rules
- Bema Hapothle
- Beta-silicon effect
- Bicycloaromaticity
- Bredt's rule
- Bürgi–Dunitz angle
- Catalytic resonance theory
- Charge remote fragmentation
- Charge-transfer complex
- Clar's rule
- Conformational isomerism
- Conjugated system
- Conrotatory and disrotatory
- Curtin–Hammett principle
- Dynamic binding (chemistry)
- Edwards equation
- Effective molarity
- Electromeric effect
- Electron-rich
- Electron-withdrawing group
- Electronic effect
- Electrophile
- Evelyn effect
- Flippin–Lodge angle
- Free-energy relationship
- Grunwald–Winstein equation
- Hammett acidity function
- Hammett equation
- George S. Hammond
- Hammond's postulate
- Homoaromaticity
- Hückel's rule
- Hyperconjugation
- Inductive effect
- Kinetic isotope effect
- LFER solvent coefficients (data page)
- Marcus theory
- Markovnikov's rule
- Möbius aromaticity
- Möbius–Hückel concept
- More O'Ferrall–Jencks plot
- Negative hyperconjugation
- Neighbouring group participation
- 2-Norbornyl cation
- Nucleophile
- Kennedy J. P. Orton
- Passive binding
- Phosphaethynolate
- Polar effect
- Polyfluorene
- Ring strain
- Σ-aromaticity
- Spherical aromaticity
- Spiroaromaticity
- Steric effects
- Superaromaticity
- Swain–Lupton equation
- Taft equation
- Thorpe–Ingold effect
- Vinylogy
- Walsh diagram
- Woodward–Hoffmann rules
- Woodward's rules
- Y-aromaticity
- Yukawa–Tsuno equation
- Zaitsev's rule
- Σ-bishomoaromaticity
