title: A facile tetrahydrothiophene-catalyzed ylide route to vinyloxiranes.
abstract: Access to vinyloxiranes using aldehydes and allylic bromides in the presence of 1-5 mol% tetrahydrothiophene is reported. Both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes work well in this reaction and the catalyst loading could be reduced as low as 0.5 mol%.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xian-Ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tang