has specified product has specified reactant primary alcohol ketone aldehyde secondary alcohol functional group oxidation Albright-Goldman oxidation 2021-11-15T09:30:47Z A particularly mild oxidation method in which, for example, dimethyl sulfoxide and acetic anhydride can be used as oxidizing agents to selectively produce aldehydes from primary alcohols without further oxidation to carboxylic acids. Analogously, secondary alcohols can be oxidized to form ketones. RXNO RXNO:0000668