Yet both share a critical limitation: Generally, only two specific sites within their structure—the carbonyl carbon and the alpha position—are easily accessible to conventional chemical reactions.

THE oxidation of α-diketones and α-keto-carboxylic acids by hydrogen peroxide involves the breaking of the carbon-carbon bond between the carbonyl carbon and the carbonyl or carboxyl groups 1.

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