Tetrahedron Letters,Vol.29,No.39,pp 4985-4986,1988 0040-4039/88 $3.00 + .OO ... COBALT CATALYSED REGIOSELECTIVE CLEAVAGE OF OXIRANES WITH ACYLCHLORIDES L Javed Iqbal", M. Amin Khan and Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India ... Abstract: Oxiranes can be cleaved in a regioselective manner with acylchlori- des in presence of Cobalt(I1) chloride to the corresponding vicinal chloro- ...