Pyridine Oxidation

I stumbled across this 1997 Biochemistry paper and thought the mechanism of oxidation followed by ring opening was pretty interesting...

Pimchai Chaiyen, Pierre Brissette, David P. Ballou,* and Vincent Massey

Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606

Biochemistry, 1997, 36 (26), pp 8060–8070