Asymmetric epoxidation of unfunctionalized alkenes by dioxirane intermediates generated from potassium peroxomonosulphate and chiral ketones
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 155-156
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39840000155
Abstract
Chiral dioxirane intermediates, which are formed in the reaction of potassium peroxomonosulphate with chiral ketones, allow the epoxidation of simple pro-chiral olefins to the corresponding epoxides to be carried out with enantiomeric excesses in the range 9–12.5%.Keywords
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