Both diastereomeric isomers of epoxides with high optical purity are obtained when camphor N-methacryloylpyrazolidinone (1a) and N-tigloylpyrazolidinone (1b) are treated with a urea hydrogen peroxide/TFAA and methyl(trifluoromethyl)dioxirane, respectively.

We have developed a very active bifunctional porphyrin catalyst showing a high turnover number (TON = 103,000) for the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from CO(2) and epoxides under solvent-free conditions.

Electrocatalytic cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxides in room temperature ionic liquids as reaction media without any additional supporting electrolyte and catalyst could be conducted with high to excellent performances under mild conditions.

Ordered imidazolyl-functionalized mesoporous polymers (IM-MPs) are directly synthesized by an evaporation-induced self-assembly method, which are further functionalized with bromoethane and employed as highly efficient and recyclable catalysts for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides.

Framework Ti-substituted, 3-D hexagonal mesoporous, Ti-SBA-12, obtained for the first time by direct hydrothermal synthesis, oxidises bulky molecules such as cyclohexene and cyclooctene to the epoxides with >96% selectivity at high conversion levels (>60%).

Straightforward deprotonation of soluble tetramethylammonium salts with alkyllithium reagents gives lithiomethyl trimethylammonium reagents. Coordination of the Li cation is crucial to the stability of these 'N-C ylides'. These reagents were used to prepare epoxides, aziridines and allylic alcohols.

Efficient syntheses of four aminocyclitols are reported. Each synthesis is accomplished in eight steps starting from D-(-)-quinic acid. The key step involves a highly regioselective ring opening of epoxides by sodium azide.

We report the fixation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into novel rubber polymers based on polycarbonate domains. Our strategy consisted in atom-efficient terpolymerisation CO2 with long-alkyl-chain epoxides and unsaturated...