Overview: Representative experimental procedures, comparative tables and conclusions

This Chapter aims to give a brief overview on the most important and mature procedures developed for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols catalyzed by transition metals, which are widely exploited in details in the previous Chapters. We will focus on the possibility of performing oxidation of one class of alcohol in the presence of another, by furnishing some representative procedures. Moreover, the opportunity to employ alternative solvents (aiming at the recovery and reuse of catalysts) is mentioned with some interesting examples. Finally, some procedures that have been scaled up to a larger scale are mentioned.