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Swern oxidation mechanism goes through the formation of Dimethyl chloro sulphonium ion from oxalyl chloride and DMSO. Then that ion reacts with alcohol to form alkoxy sulfonium ion.

Deprotonation of this intermediate gives a sulphur ylide, which undergoes intramolecular deprotonation via a five-membered ring transition state and fragmentation to yield the product(carbonyl compound) and DMS (odour!):

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