Iodohydrins: An Easy Route to Epoxides from Alkenes
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Synthetic Communications
- Vol. 28 (3) , 559-572
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00397919808005111
Abstract
The preparation of epoxides is efficiently achieved by reaction of alkenes with I2 in aqueous dioxane in the presence of Cu(OAc)2.H2O followed by treatment with KOH in a biphasic system (H2O/ether/pentane).Keywords
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