An efficient catalytic ylide route to vinyl epoxides

Kai Li; Zheng Zheng Huang; Yong Tang

doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(03)00822-0

An efficient catalytic ylide route to vinyl epoxides

Kai Li, Zheng Zheng Huang, Yong Tang

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Abstract

The ylide epoxidation catalyzed by telluronium salts provides a simple and extremely efficient route to vinyl epoxides in excellent yields. Both aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes work well. The best results were obtained by using 2 mol% of telluronium salts with Cs₂CO₃ in t-BuOH.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4137-4140
Number of pages	4
Journal	Tetrahedron Letters
Volume	44
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4039(03)00822-0
State	Published - May 19 2003

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We are grateful for the financial support from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China, and the ‘Talented Scientist Program’ from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Catalytic ylide epoxidation
Solvent effect

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