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Novel epoxidation reaction of perfluoroalkenes with trimethylamine N-oxide and iodosylbenzene

T Ono, P Henderson

Index: Ono, Taizo; Henderson, Philip Tetrahedron Letters, 2002 , vol. 43, # 44 p. 7961 - 7965

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Abstract

Trimethylamine N-oxide and iodosylbenzene were found to be useful reagents for the epoxidation of tri-and tetra-substituted perfluoroalkenes in good to excellent yields. A catalytic epoxidation method was also developed by coupling this reaction with the N-