A study of the epoxidation of cycloolefins by the t-BuOH copper-permanganate system.
Evidence is presented that Cu(MnO(4))(2) effectively epoxidizes trisubstituted steroid olefins by a nonconcerted pathway.
Baqi
Younis
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Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Giroux
Simon
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Corey
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