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Science 10 October 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5643, pp. 235 - 236
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090810a
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Perspectives

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CHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: A View of Unusual Peroxides

Alexander Greer

Chemical processes involving oxygen can lead to unstable peroxide molecules such as three-membered ring dioxiranes. In his Perspective, Greer describes the stability of a variety of heteroatom-containing dioxiranes and the tools used to characterize unstable peroxides species. He highlights the report by Ho et al., who have used low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance to obtain direct evidence for dioxirane intermediates. The method may also be applicable to biological systems in which peroxides have been implicated.

The author is in the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School and University Center and City University of New York-Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA. E-mail: agreer{at}brooklyn.cuny.edu

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