SELECTIVITY IN EPOXIDATION: ACYCLIC DIASTEREO- AND ENANTIO-SELECTION WITH PEROXIDE MEDIATED BY TITANIUM(IV) AND WITH PERACID

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)86790-8

New diastereoselective epoxidation on the olefin 1 with TBHP mediated by Ti(IV) is described to give the epoxyde 2 which has reverse orientation of the one, 3, with MCPBA.Ti-mediation was ineffective on the olefin 4, on which MCPBA worked in high selectiv