For 10 points, name this functional group containing an oxygen-oxygen single bond, whose simplest example is H2O2.
One modification to the Hunsdiecker reaction uses molybdenum (VI) and one of these compounds. Following the addition of bromine and water and then calcium hydroxide, iron (III) acetate and one of these compounds is added in a sugar degradation, while it's iron (II) that is paired with one of these to process organic wastes like tetrachloro-ethylene or to hydroxylate arenes. These compounds rearrange into an alcohol and a ketone in a reaction observed in prostaglandin synthesis. Bottles of ether become dangerous to open after a few years due to the formation of these compounds. These compounds are used in the Fenton reagent and the Ruff degradation and they rearrange to a ketone and alcohol in the Kornblum-DeLaMare reaction. An acyl example of one of these compounds react by a butterfly mechanism with alkenes to give epoxides in the Prilazhaev reaction, and a meta-chloro benzene derivative reacts with ketones to give esters in the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation. Reactions using the simplest example of this functionality are essential to green chemistry. For 10 points, name this functional group containing an oxygen-oxygen single bond, whose simplest example is H2O2.
One modification to the Hunsdiecker reaction uses molybdenum (VI) and one of these compounds.
{peroxides}