Mechanism of the reaction of cyclohexanone and nitric acid to form Adipic acid Can I get some help in figuring out the mechanism for this reaction.
Adipic acid is a molecule with two carboxylic groups,but I can't see how that happens. My initial thoughts involved that the carbonyl group in cyclohexanone is protonated,but I couldn't get any further as I couldn't figure out what would happen after that.
It think this reaction goes via following mechanism.