Abstract
The aqueous tungstic acid-catalyzed hydrogen peroxide epoxidation of allylic alcohols affords the same major diastereoisomer as the VO(acac) 2/tBuOOH system with quite comparable stereoselectivities. In contrast, epoxidation of homoallylic alcohols appears to be much less stereoselective.
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