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Reagents typically used to carry out this rearrangement are meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA), peroxyacetic acid, or peroxytrifluoroacetic acid . The original reagent in the 1899 publication is Caro's acid discovered just a year earlier.  Disodium hydrogen phosphate is added as a buffering agent to prevent transesterification.
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
Bucherer-Bergs reaction
Fleming-Tamao oxidation
Feldenkrais method
Gas diffusion method
Ammonia production
Ethanol fermentation
Aldol reaction