Epoxides are very important building blocks in organic synthesis.1 Dioxiranes, either isolated or generated in situ, have been shown to be extremely versatile epoxidation reagents.2-6 In nearly every case, the generation of dioxiranes uses potassium peroxomonosulfate (KHSO5) as oxidant (Scheme 1).7,8 During our recent study on asymmetric epoxidation using the fructose-derived ketone (1), we fou...

Methyltrioxorhenium (MTO) complexed with pyridine was shown to be a highly effective catalyst for the regioselective monoepoxidation of conjugated di- and trienes using 30% H2O2 at or below room temperature. The resultant allylic epoxides, and the triols derived from them, are versatile synthetic intermediates as well as substructures present in many bioactive natural products. The site of epox...

The epoxidation of olefins with tetra n-butylammonium periodate, n-Bu4/NIO4, is catalyzed by six different tetrakis (4-substituted phenyl) porphyrinatomanganese(III) acetate, Mn(T4-XPP)OAc, Complexes in the presence of imidazole as an axial ligand with low to high yields and complete selectivity at room temperature. While the electronic effects of the highly electron-w...

A heterogeneous catalyst containing manganese Schiff base complex (derived from 2,4-dihydroxybenzadehyde and 1,2-phenylenediamine) is produced by covalent anchoring in MCM-41 matrix. The synthesized catalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD), inductivity coupled plasma (ICP), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, N2 sorbtion-desorbtion isotherm and by tr...

The potential of various organic species to catalyze epoxidation of ethene by hydrogen peroxide is explored with B3LYP/6-31G* DFT calculations.

A chiral iron-sexipyridine complex-hydrogen peroxide mixture is a highly efficient catalytic system for styrene epoxidation with excellent reactivity (3 min, 95% yield) and chemoselectivity (98%).

A new heterogeneous catalytic system, phase-boundary catalysis, for epoxidation of alkene with aqueous H2O2 is proposed. Amphiphilic titanium-loaded zeolite particles, a part of the external surface of which was covered with hydrophobic alkyl groups and the rest being left hydrophilic, were prepared by deposition of titanium species from titanium(IV) tetra-2-propoxide and attachment of octadecy...

The discovery of heterogeneous catalysts synthesized in easy, sustainable ways for the valorization olefins derived from renewable biomass is attractive environmental, sustainability, and economic viewpoints. Here, an organic–inorganic hybrid catalyst formulated as [MoO3(Hpto)]·H2O (2), where Hpto = 5-(2-pyridyl-1-oxide)tetrazole, was prepared by a hydrolysis–condensation reaction complex [MoO2...

Enantiomerically enriched glycidol derivatives with contiguous stereogenic centers were obtained in a highly diastereo- and enantio-selective epoxidation catalyzed with the styrene monooxygenase StyAB2.