Hydroperoxide

File:Methyl-hydroperoxide-from-ED-3D-balls-A.png

Ball-and-stick model of methyl hydroperoxide, the simplest organic hydroperoxide. White balls are hydrogen, the black ball is carbon, and the red balls are oxygen.

Hydroperoxide is the –OOH functional group: an oxygen atom bonded to another oxygen atom which is itself bonded to a hydrogen atom. Organic compounds that have this group are also called hydroperoxides.

A chemical that has a hydroperoxide connected to an acyl group is called an organic peroxy acid.

Hydroperoxides are chemical unstable compounds. A technical usage of such compounds is the sharpless epoxidation.

Hydroperoxide Media

• FunktionelleGruppen Hydroperoxide.svg

  The general structure of an organic hydroperoxide with the blue marked functional group, where R stands for any group, typically organic

• Sharpless epoxidation DE.svg

  Stereochemistry of the Sharpless epoxidation

• Hock-Phenol.png

  Synthesis of cumene hydroperoxide

• Schenk-En-Reaktion.png

  Synthesis of hydroperoxides of alkene and singlet oxygen in an Schenck ene reaction

• Tetrahydrofuran peroxide formation.svg

  Tetrahydrofuran peroxide formation

• LyaseNonenalHemiAc.png

  Illustrative biosynthetic transformation involving a hydroperoxide. Here cis-3-hexenal is generated by conversion of linolenic acid to the hydroperoxide by the action of a lipoxygenase followed by the lyase-induced formation of the hemiacetal.

• Karen'sOOH.svg

  structure of a palladium hydroperoxide complex