Anhydrous tert -Butyl Hydroperoxide in Toluene: The Preferred Reagent for Applications Requiring Dry TBHP

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 1983, Pages 3607-3608

  Hill, J Gordon ^a   Rossiter, Bryant E ^a   Sharpless, K Barry ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000471716     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: 15206904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo00168a063     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Sharpless, K.B.; Verhoeven, T.R. Aldrichimica Acta 1979, 12, 63.
2. Private communication to K.B.S.
3. Lendon N. Pridgen and Lee Webb, unpublished results.
4. Sharpless, K.B.; Behrens, C.H.; Katsuki, T.; Lee, A.W.M.; Martin, V.S.; Takatani, M.; Viti, S.M.; Walker, F.J.; Woodard, S.S. Pure Appl Chem. 1983, 55, 589. This is currently the best source of information about the titanium-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation.
5. Miyano, S.; Lu, L.D.-L.; Viti, S.M.; Sharpless, K.B. J. Org. Chem., communication in this issue.
6. J. Gordon Hill, unpublished result.
7. M.G. Finn and Jon Ellman, unpublished results.
8. Do not use polyethylene containers as they are permeable to these solutions (preferentially to the toluene) and one observes a constantly increasing peroxide titer.