A Facile Method for the Epoxidation of Cyclic Enone Catalyzed by tert-BuNH2 with 30% Hydrogen Peroxide as Oxidant

✍ Scribed by Xiao-Yue Ouyang; Huan-Feng Jiang; Jing-Mei Huang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 67 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0256-7660
• DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.200690280

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It was found that tert‐BuNH~2~ is an efficient catalyst for epoxidation of α,β‐unsaturated ketones with 30% H~2~O~2~ under mild conditions. For most of the cyclic unsaturated ketones used, moderate to excellent yields (45%–93%) were obtained within 24 h period.