Patent ID: 7038090

Claim:
A process for producing an organic hydroperoxide comprising reacting an organic compound having at least one carbon-hydrogen bond capable of being oxidized to a hydroperoxide-carbon bond with oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a transition metal oxides of empirical formulation in the anhydrous state (M1) a m+ H d O z where M1 is a transition metal selected from the set Mn, Co, Cr, V, Mo, Fe, Cu, and Ni, which comprises between 0.1% and 90% of the catalyst by weight, “a” is the moles of the M1 metal in the transition metal oxide and is defined to be equal to 1, “m” is the average valence of M1 and is greater than 0, “d” is the mole ratio of hydrogen to M1 and varies from 0 to about “z”, and “z” is the mole ratio of O to M1 and is given by z =( a·m+d )/2=( m+d )/2.