“…Molecular oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, tert -butyl hydroperoxides, and peroxyacids were used as oxidants in these oxygenations. Certain complexes of transition metals have been previously reported to oxidize organic compounds including alkanes with meta -chloroperoxybenzoicacid (MCPBA [25]) [25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44] (see, for example, complexes of cobalt [21,24,38], manganese [26,27,34,36,44], iron [28], nickel [30,31,32,33,35,37,39,42,43] and vanadium [40]). Earlier, Nam [15,16] reported that alkane oxidation with MCPBA catalyzed by some cobalt compounds proceeds stereoselectively.…”