Synthesis 2005(19): 3405-3411  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-918483
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Highly Efficient Catalysts for Epoxidation Mediated by Iminium Salts

Philip C. Bulman Page*a, Benjamin R. Buckleya, Louise F. Applebya, Paul A. Alstersb
a Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK
Fax: +44(1509)223926; e-Mail: p.c.b.page@lboro.ac.uk;
b DSM Pharma Chemicals, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, P.O. Box 18, 6160 MD Geleen, The Netherlands
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Publication History

Received 9 September 2005
Publication Date:
14 November 2005 (online)

Abstract

A range of substituted dihydroisoquinolinium salts has been tested in the catalytic epoxidation of several alkenes. Catalyst loadings as low as 0.5 mol% have been used in the epoxidation of 1-phenylcyclohexene.