CFCOaH RX= O----f ROCOR first described by Baeyer and Villige~-,~ has been carried out previously with peracetic, perbenzoic and Caro's acid. 4 It generally has been applied, however, to alicyclic ketones, aralkyl ketones and to aromatic ketones. Furthermore, the yields in most cases are not extremely good, and this makes separation of the ester product from the original ketone somewhat tedious since these materials normally boil very close ...
