Recent progress towards the understanding of metal–salen catalysed asymmetric alkene epoxidation

The first practical method for asymmetric epoxidation

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Enantioselective epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins catalyzed by salen manganese complexes

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Hydroxylation and epoxidation catalyzed by iron-porphine complexes. Oxygen transfer from iodosylbenzene

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Epoxidation of olefins with cationic (salen)manganese(III) complexes. The modulation of catalytic activity by substituents

K. S. V. Srinivasan, Pascal Michaud, Jay K. Kochi · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1986 · 805 citations

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