Journal of the American Chemical Society

Reactions of Hydrogen Peroxide. V. 1 Alkaline Epoxidation of Acrolein and Methacrolein

GB Payne

Index: Payne Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959 , vol. 81, p. 4901,4904

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Citation Number: 70

Abstract

An early attempt to epoxidize simple@ unsaturated aldehydes by means of hydrogen peroxide under alkaline conditions was reported by Weitz and Scheffer2 in their original study of the epoxidation of a, P-unsaturated ketones. They used a relatively large amount of caustic (as high as 40 mole% based on hydrogen peroxide) in attempts to epoxidize both cinnamaldehyde and crotonaldehyde, but observed only acidic products from both ...