The name Fauvel points to the French fauve ('chestnut, reddish-yellow, or fawn'), another sense of fauve meaning the class of wild animals whose coats are at least partly brown, and the medieval belief that a fallow horse was a symbol of deceit and dishonesty.
An oxidizing agent is a reactant that removes electrons from other reactants during a redox reaction. The oxidizing agent typically takes these electrons for itself, thus gaining electrons and being reduced. An oxidizing agent is thus an electron acceptor.
Oxidizing and Reducing Agents. Oxidation and reduction reactions are some of the most common transformations encountered in organic synthesis, and are some of the organic chemistâs most powerful tools for creating novel products. Below is a list of the most commonly used oxidizing and reducing agents currently available from Aldrich. back to top.