Iron-catalyzed epoxidation of aromatic olefins and 1,3-dienes

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 352, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1771-1778

  Schröder, Kristin ^a   Enthaler, Stephan ^b   Join, Benoît ^a   Junge, Kathrin ^a   Beller, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epoxidation; Hydrogen peroxide; Iron; Mechanistic studies; Olefins

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954804169     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201000091     Document Type: Article

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