1. (a) in The Chemistry of Functional Groups, Peroxides (Ed.: ), Wiley, New York, 1983, p. 161.
2. (b) , Metal-Catalyzed Oxidation of Organic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1981, p. 56.
3. For applications of tert-butyl hydroperoxide in laboratory organic synthesis, see in Asymmetric Synthesis, Vol. 5 (Ed.: ), Academic Press, New York, 1985, Ch. 8. tert-Butyl hydroperoxide is also used as an initiator in free-radical polymerization processes, crosslinking, and vulcanization of elastomers.
4. Metal Acetylacetonate Catalyzed Epoxidation of Olefins with t-Butyl Hydroperoxide
5. (b) (Halcon International), U. S. Patent 3350422, 1967;