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Offline Satty07

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Oxidative Cleavage of Hydrobenzoin ???
« on: February 17, 2009, 09:38:10 PM »
I was wondering what the balanced equation of the oxidative cleavage of hydrobenzoin with silica gel supported periodic acid dihydrate(HIO4 2H2O) would be???  Any help would be much appreciated.

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Re: Oxidative Cleavage of Hydrobenzoin ???
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2009, 12:40:32 AM »
Please read the last line of this article, just above the drawing and i'm sure you will get the problem very easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_acid

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