Other Epoxidation Methods
Other Epoxidation Methods: Epoxidation with Dioxirane
General procedure
Enantioselective epoxidation in a neutral medium is made possible by using dioxirane and an optically active manganese(III) salt as catalyst.
Different enantiomeric products are obtained depending on which form of catalyst is being used.
The manganese salts have the following absolute configurations: