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The oxidation of activated primary and secondary alcohols to the correspond
ing aldehydes and ketones can be carried out with molecular oxygen, in the
presence of the bimetallic molybdenum-copper system MoO2(acac)(2)-Cu(NO3)(2
) as catalyst.