The epoxidation of alkenes by peracids is a synthetically useful transformation that has been used by chemists for many decades. Several mechanistic studies of this reaction have been reported that include stereochemistry, 1 as well as kinetics, solvent effects, 2 Hammet correlations, 3 and isotope effects. 4 The most popular mechanism was proposed5 by Bartlett in 1950 and found support later from studies involving calculations6 and ...
