Hydroxy-assisted chemo- and stereo-selective epoxidation catalysed by a titanium silicate molecular sieve (TS-1)/H2O2 system

Abstract

The TS-1/H2O2 system efficiently catalyses the hydroxy-assisted chemoselective epoxidation of α-hydroxyalkene in geraniol, and the stereoselective epoxidation of cyclopent-2-en-1-ol/cyclohex-2-en-1-ol producing the epoxide which is cis to OH with high selectivity (90:10 cis: trans).