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The present invention relates to a process for oxidizing a starting material as herein described with an oxidizing agent to obtain a product, which comprises carrying out the oxidation in a reaction apparatus which has a bottom region at the lower end, a top region at the upper end and a reaction zone between the top region and the bottom region, maintaining the reaction mixture in the boiling state in the reaction zone, and introducing oxidizing agent into the reaction zone in at least substreams;