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B
CH3−C|CH3H−O−O||C−C6H5
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C
CH3−CH2−O−O||C−CH2−C6H5
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D
C6H5−CH2−O−O||C−CH2−CH3
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Solution
The correct option is ACH3−C|CH3H−O−O||C−C6H5
This is Baeyer Villiger oxidation.
MCPBA is used to provide one extra oxygen atom, the mechanism is like as shown.
Hence, an alkyl group with higher stability migrates.
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation is regioselective. Of the two alpha carbons in the ketone, the one that can stabilize a positive charge more effectively, which is the more highly substituted one, migrates from carbon to oxygen preferentially.