Vk. Yadav et Kk. Kapoor, AL2O3 SUPPORTED KF - AN EFFICIENT MEDIATOR IN THE EPOXIDATION OF ELECTRON-DEFICIENT ALKENES WITH T-BUOOH, Tetrahedron letters, 35(50), 1994, pp. 9481-9484
KF-AL(2)O(3) is discovered to promote epoxidation of electron deficien
t alkenes. Functional groups that are labile to aqueous basic conditio
ns survive. The steric demand for the reaction is higher than that for
alkaline H2O2.