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For questions about oxidation reactions in organic chemistry, where a molecule of interest is oxidised. Do not use for questions on general redox concepts.

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What is the mechanism for the oxidation of a lactol to a lactone?

Lactols are basically aldehydes in ring formation. What happens is the lactols unwind in solution into chain formation and it is here that they are oxidized to carboxylic acid by something like Toll …
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