Dess–Martin oxidation

Dess–Martin oxidation
Named after	Daniel Benjamin Dess James Cullen Martin
Reaction type	Organic redox reaction
Identifiers
Organic Chemistry Portal	dess-martin-oxidation
RSC ontology ID	RXNO:0000256

The Dess–Martin oxidation is an organic reaction for the oxidation of primary alcohols to aldehydes and secondary alcohols to ketones using Dess-Martin periodinane. It is named after the American chemists Daniel Benjamin Dess and James Cullen Martin who developed the periodinane reagent in 1983.

The acceleration of the Dess–Martin oxidation reaction using water has been shown by Meyer and Schreiber.